Before this change, the VGA palette was configured to match the shell
palette (e.g. color #1 was red). There was one glitch early in boot when
the vt(4)'s VGA palette was loaded: the loader's logo would switch from
red to blue. Likewise for the "Booting..." message switching from blue
to red. That's because the loader's logo was drawed with the default VGA
palette where a few colors are swapped compared to the shell palette
(e.g. blue <-> red).
This change configures the default VGA palette during initialization and
converts input's colors from shell to VGA palette index.
There should be no visible changes, except the loader's logo which will
keep its original color.
Reviewed by: eadler
This makes it more logical:
1. It checks the requested color format
2. It fills the palette accordingly
Also vt_palette_init() is only called when needed (i.e. when the format
is `COLOR_FORMAT_RGB`).
During review iterations function signature has changed in definition
but not in actual call. Fix call to match the definition.
Reported by: Herbert J. Skuhra
Pointyhat to: gonzo
MFC after: 2 weeks
Introduce new set of loader tunables kern.vt.color.N.rgb, where N is a
number from 0 to 15. The value is either comma-separated list decimal
numbers ranging from 0 to 255 that represent values of red, green, and
blue components respectively (i.e. "128,128,128") or 6-digit hex triplet
commonly used to represent colors in HTML or xterm settings (i.e. #808080)
Each tunable overrides one of the 16 hardcoded palette codes and can be set
in loader.conf(5)
Reviewed by: bcr(docs), jilles, manu, ray
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13645
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Rename vt_generate_vga_palette() to vt_generate_cons_palette() and
change it to build a palette where the color index is the same than in
terminal escape codes, not the VGA index. That's what TCHAR_CREATE()
uses and passes to vt(4).
The main differences between both orders are:
o Blue and red are swapped (1 <-> 4)
o Yellow and cyan are swapped (3 <-> 6)
The problem remained unnoticed, because the RGB bit indexes passed to
vt_generate_vga_palette() were reversed. This inversion was cancelled
by the colors inversions in the generated palette. For instance, red
(0xff0000) and blue (0x0000ff) have bytes in opposite order, but were
swapped in the palette. But after changing the value of blue (see last
paragraph), the modified color was in fact the red one.
This commit includes a fix to creator_vt.c, submitted by Nathan
Whitehorn: fb_cmsize is set to 16. Before this, the generated palette
would be overwritte. This fixes colors on sparc64 with a Creator3D
adapter.
While here, tune the palette to better match console colors and improve
the readability (especially the dark blue).
Submitted by: nwhitehorn (fix to creator_vt.c)
MFC after: 1 week
