Re: Reasons for keeping sc(4) and libvgl ?

26.11.2021 23:13, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:

>  Better as in it doesn't respect the specs ?

People (expept of programmers :-) do not work with specs,
they work with real pieces of metal. sc(4) works out of the box
and an upgrade does not ruin the system, so it is considered better.

I was forced to deal with production system broken with 11.1->11.2 upgrade (it used vt(4) by default)
and it was not fun.

>  You said yourself in this PR that we should blame the manufacturer.
>  Now if you want to work on making hw.vga.acpi_ignore_no_vga better in
> loader based on the smbios info and some quirk table please go ahead.
>  But don't say that sc(4) is better because it works on buggy hardware
> as it ignores some stuff.

No, I will keep saying that compatibility with buggy hardware is better than lack of compatibility;
at least in case we already have the compatibility and going to lose it.

>> I'd like more FreeBSD developers respect POLA these days
>> and take responds like "I've always used sc(4), it works for me don't touch it" seriously.
>>
>> Please, don't touch what works and works good.
>>
> 
>  Why POLA ?
>  I'm asking for reasons to keep sc(4), how the hell is that POLA to ask
> some questions ?

Removal of sc(4) will astonish part of our userbase. We should avoid it.