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

From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu_at_bidouilliste.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 15:52:21 UTC 
On Sat, 27 Nov 2021 18:41:55 +0700
Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> wrote:

> 27.11.2021 2:06, Stefan Blachmann wrote:
> 
> > When time comes and I have to buy computers that do no longer support
> > CSM, I'll look into the sc source to add a VGA BIOS interrupt call to
> > change from UEFI graphics to text mode at initialization time.
> > This should be sufficient to support sc on UEFI machines.
> > Actually I do not understand why this has not yet been done.
> > Do you think such a patch to make sc work on UEFI systems would be
> > accepted into FreeBSD?
> 
> I've been told there are UEFI variants that do not support old text mode at all.

 There is no text mode in UEFI, there is UGA for the old EFI 1.0 and
GOP for 2.0.

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Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@FreeBSD.org>