newcons fb driver

[Kurt Lidl]

> In message <CAJ-Vmo=jCGUxXs_GBoCm581wTouozWE=AQ3x1wBKYM_J3_dGrg at mail.gmail.com>
> , Adrian Chadd writes:
>
>>.. i'm pretty sure there was a reason for why it's done in byte sizes.
>>Maybe speak to phk?
>
> Buggy video hardware, which does not do larger writes correctly,
> the most recent one being an Intel Laptop, but I can't remember which.
>
> At the very least, byte writes needs to be a boot-time option.

Intel Atom boards, as I recall:

http://freshbsd.org/commit/freebsd/r237203

-Kurt