- Add a separate palette data for 8-bit DAC mode when SC_PIXEL_MODE is set
and fill it up with default gray-scale palette data for text. Now we don't
have to set `hint.sc.0.vesa_mode' to get the default palette data.
- Add a new adapter flag, V_ADP_DAC8 to track whether the controller is
using 8-bit palette format and load correct palette when switching modes.
- Set 8-bit DAC mode only for non-VGA compatible graphics mode.
This replaces d_mmap() with the d_mmap2() implementation and also
changes the type of offset to vm_ooffset_t.
Purge d_mmap2().
All driver modules will need to be rebuilt since D_VERSION is also
bumped.
Reviewed by: jhb@
MFC after: Not in this lifetime...
Right now syscons(4) uses a cons25-style terminal emulator. The
disadvantages of that are:
- Little compatibility with embedded devices with serial interfaces.
- Bad bandwidth efficiency, mainly because of the lack of scrolling
regions.
- A very hard transition path to support for modern character sets like
UTF-8.
Our terminal emulation library, libteken, has been supporting
xterm-style terminal emulation for months, so flip the switch and make
everyone use an xterm-style console driver.
I still have to enable this on i386. Right now pc98 and i386 share the
same /etc/ttys file. I'm not going to switch pc98, because it uses its
own Kanji-capable cons25 emulator.
IMPORTANT: What to do if things go wrong (i.e. graphical artifacts):
- Run the application inside script(1), try to reduce the problem and
send me the log file.
- In the mean time, you can run `vidcontrol -T cons25' and `export
TERM=cons25' so you can run applications the same way you did before.
You can also build your kernel with `options TEKEN_CONS25' to make all
virtual terminals use the cons25 emulator by default.
Discussed on: current@
xterm and cons25 have some incompatibilities when it comes to escape
sequences for special keys, such as F1 to F12, home, end, etc. Add a new
te_fkeystr() that can be used to override the strings.
scterm-sck won't do anything with this, but scterm-teken will use
teken_get_sequences() to obtain the proper sequence.
- VBE 3.0 says palette format resets to 6-bit mode when video mode changes.
We simply set 8-bit mode when we switch modes if the adapter supports it.
- VBE 3.0 also says if the mode is not VGA compatible, we must use VBE
function to save/restore palette. Otherwise, VGA function may be used.
Thus, reinstate the save/load palette functions only for non-VGA compatible
modes regardless of its palette format.
- Let vesa(4) set VESA modes even if vga(4) claims to support it.
- Reset default palette if VESA pixel mode is set initially.
- Fix more style nits.
Right now if applications want to use the mouse on the command line,
they use sysmouse(4) and install a signal handler in the kernel to
deliver signals when mouse events arrive. This conflicts with my plan to
change to TERM=xterm, so implement proper VT200-style mouse input.
Because mouse input is now streamed through the TTY, it means you can
now SSH to another system on the console and use the mouse there as
well. The disadvantage of the VT200 mouse protocol, is that it doesn't
seem to generate events when moving the cursor. Only when pressing and
releasing mouse buttons.
There are different protocols as well, but this one seems to be most
commonly supported.
Reported by: Paul B. Mahol <onemda gmail com>
Tested with: vim(1)
It is quite inconvenient that if an application for xterm uses 256 color
mode, text suddenly starts to blink (because of ;5; in the middle).
We'd better just implement 256 color mode and add a conversion routine
from 256 to 8 color mode, which doesn't seem to be too bad in practice.
Remapping colors is done quite simple. If one of the channels is most
actively represented, primary colors are used. If two channels are most
actively represented, secondary colors are used. If all three channels
are equal (gray), it picks between black and white.
Reported by: Paul B. Mahol <onemda gmail com>
This code seems to do exactly the same as ttydisc_rint_simple() does
nowadays. Just remove it.
Obtained from: //depot/user/ed/newcons/sys/dev/syscons/syscons.c
For some vague reason, it may be possible that scp->cursor_pos exceeds
scp->ysize * scp->xsize. This means that teken_set_cursor() may get
called with an invalid position. Just ignore the old cursor position in
this case.
Reported by: Paul B. Mahol <onemda gmail com>
MFC after: 1 month
"set vesa mode" and higher 16bits of the flag would be the desired mode.
One can now set, for instance, hint.sc.0.flags=0x01680180, which means
that the system should set VESA mode 0x168 upon boot.
Submitted by: paradox <ddkprog yahoo com>, swell k at gmail.com with
some minor changes.
where we figure out the hostname length under the lock, malloc the buffer
with the lock dropped, then recheck the length under the lock and loop again
if the buffer is now too small.
Tested by: Norbert Koch nkoch demig de
MFC after: 3 days
- Add vesa kernel options for amd64.
- Connect libvgl library and splash kernel modules to amd64 build.
- Connect manual page dpms(4) to amd64 build.
- Remove old vesa/dpms files.
Submitted by: paradox <ddkprog yahoo com> [1], swell k at gmail.com
(with some minor tweaks)
Right now libteken processes TF_REVERSE internally and returns the
toggled colors to the console driver. This isn't entirely correct. This
means that the bold flag is always processed by the foreground color,
while reversing should be done after the foreground color has been set
to a brighter version by the bold flag.
This is no problem with the syscons driver, because with VGA it only
supports 16 foreground and 8 background colors. My WIP console driver
reconfigures the graphics hardware to disable the blink functionality
and uses 16 foreground and 16 background colors. This means that this
driver will handle the TF_REVERSE flag a little different from what
syscons does right now.
I initially committed libteken to sys/dev/syscons/teken, but now that
I'm working on a console driver myself, I noticed this was not a good
decision. Move it to sys/teken to make it easier for other drivers to
use a terminal emulator.
Also list teken.c in sys/conf/files, instead of listing it in all the
files.arch files separately.
Characters between 0x07 and 0x0d are now also mapped, which means we can
display almost 256 different characters. Also remap certain types of
dashes and quotes, which means we can finally read our manual pages
without red question marks in them.
Submitted by: Christoph Mallon
Add a small Unicode-to-CP437 remapping table to at least demonstrate
that the terminal emulator is perfectly capable of handling UTF-8. This
will of course break if the user loads a different font map, but it at
least allows people to give it a try.
I can now see the box drawing in dialog(1) and the arrows in mutt(1)
correctly.
Because we only support a single argument to tf_param, use 16 bits for
the pitch and 16 bits for the duration. While there, make the argument
unsigned. There isn't a single param call that needs a signed integer.
Submitted by: danfe (modified)
The system hostname is now stored in prison0, and the global variable
"hostname" has been removed, as has the hostname_mtx mutex. Jails may
have their own host information, or they may inherit it from the
parent/system. The proper way to read the hostname is via
getcredhostname(), which will copy either the hostname associated with
the passed cred, or the system hostname if you pass NULL. The system
hostname can still be accessed directly (and without locking) at
prison0.pr_host, but that should be avoided where possible.
The "similar information" referred to is domainname, hostid, and
hostuuid, which have also become prison parameters and had their
associated global variables removed.
Approved by: bz (mentor)
I don't want people to override the mutex when allocating a TTY. It has
to be there, to keep drivers like syscons happy. So I'm creating a
tty_alloc_mutex() which can be used in those cases. tty_alloc_mutex()
should eventually be removed.
The advantage of this approach, is that we can just remove a function,
without breaking the regular API in the future.
Apart from the 16 virtual terminals, Syscons allocates two device nodes
that should not really be TTYs, even though they are. One of them is
consolectl. In RELENG_7 and before, these device nodes are used in
single user mode. After I simplified input path, we only use this device
node to call ioctl() on (moused, Xorg, vidcontrol).
When you call ioctl() on consolectl, it will behave the same as being
called on the first window.
It seems I didn't fix this issue before committing teken to the tree. My
initial idea was to somehow add an error mechanism to instruct the video
driver author to increase T_NUMCOL when using very big terminals. It
turns out we have platforms where we have gigantic consoles on systems
like the Apple PowerMac G5, which means we crash there right now.
Just ignore tabstops placed beyond column 160. Just force tabs to be
placed on each 8 columns.
Reported by: nwhitehorn
After I imported libteken into the source tree, I noticed syscons didn't
store the cursor position inside the terminal emulator, but inside the
virtual terminal stat. This is not very useful, because when you
implement more complex forms of line wrapping, you need to keep track of
more state than just the cursor position.
Because the kernel messages didn't share the same terminal emulator as
ttyv0, this caused a lot of strange things, like kernel messages being
misplaced and a missing notification to resize the terminal emulator for
kernel messages never to be resized when using vidcontrol.
This patch just removes kernel_console_ts and adds a special parameter
to te_puts to determine whether messages should be printed using regular
colors or the ones for kernel messages.
Reported by: ache
Tested by: nyan, garga (older version)
We should just leave the underlying TTY objects alone when scrolling
around in KDB. It should be handled by Syscons exclusively.
Reported by: pluknet gmail com
