to the screen on which they are being called. The driver cannot guess
this by itself but it is needed to implement, at least, the getwschar and
putwschar functions in the correct place. There are no functional changes
yet.
Tested on i386 (vga, vga_raster, machfb, vesafb), macppc and sparc64.
Suggested and reviewed by macallan@.
the background. The problem was exposed when setting a non-black color
as the background, as the shift did not produce the expected fill value
(for black it worked because 0 is black).
- Add a (temporary) printf to vga_raster_load_font() for tracking font
loading process. If you encountered "vga_raster_load_font: called"
kernel message, please let me know.
- While here, some KNF.
to use generic VGA driver(s):
- Allow VGA drivers to use wsfont instead of builtin font.
- Add vga_reset() function, which will be called from MD consinit(),
to put VGA into text mode. This function is enabled by options VGA_RESET.
to char-cell based vga(4) driver, and fully compatible with existing
apps like XFree86. Currently it supports 80x25, 80x30, 80x40 and 80x50
text modes using emulation. You can enable it by specifying `options
VGA_RASTERCONSOLE' in your kernel config file.
Note that displaying multilingual text doesn't work yet. Necessary
code is already there, but userland stuff and some functionality isn't
ready for prime time yet. I'm working on them.
dogcow