Re: [SeaBIOS] FreeBSD VESA console not working with SeaBIOS

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 11:32:25PM +0200, Jon Doe wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Kevin O'Connor  wrote:
> > I gave it a shot anyway - seabios patch is below.

[...]
> I can report that this patch also works for FreeBSD 8.2's VESA
> console. There seems to be some unrelated problem when running
> 1.8-stable so I applied it to rel-1.7.5.2

I'm not surprised seabios master would still have a problem (due to
recently reported issue with smsww), but I am surprised 1.8-stable
would have a problem.  Can you confirm it was 1.8-stable that was
still broken with the patch?

-Kevin

FreeBSD VESA console not working with SeaBIOS

[Jon Doe]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Kevin O'Connor  wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 11:32:25PM +0200, Jon Doe wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Kevin O'Connor  wrote:
> > > I gave it a shot anyway - seabios patch is below.
>
> [...]
> > I can report that this patch also works for FreeBSD 8.2's VESA
> > console. There seems to be some unrelated problem when running
> > 1.8-stable so I applied it to rel-1.7.5.2
>
> I'm not surprised seabios master would still have a problem (due to
> recently reported issue with smsww), but I am surprised 1.8-stable
> would have a problem.  Can you confirm it was 1.8-stable that was
> still broken with the patch?
>
> -Kevin

Correction, it was master. 1.8-stable with patch works.