Quick question: sc(4) vs vt(4)

[Pokala, Ravi]

-----Original Message-----
From: Xin Li <delphij at delphij.net>
Organization: The FreeBSD Project
Reply-To: <d at delphij.net>
Date: 2015-09-02, Wednesday at 15:22
To: Ravi Pokala <rpokala at panasas.com>, "freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org"
<freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Quick question: sc(4) vs vt(4)

>On 09/02/15 15:13, Pokala, Ravi wrote:
>>...
>> 
>> 
>> Are there any known problems using vt(4) rather than sc(4) on systems
>>booting with BIOS? One of our folks noticed that sc(4) has a bunch of
>>dependencies, a bunch of which that are for obsolete hardware (AT
>>keyboards and their controllers, splash screens, etc), that vt(4) does
>>not.
>
>I don't expect any problems with it used in systems that uses BIOS.  In
>fact, one would have to use vt if they want to use DRM2, and I personally
>used it for quite some time on my Lenovo T530, and there isn't any glitch
>related to vt(4) in the past year that I can remember.

Thanks Xin. A few folks chimed in on #bsdcode and said the same thing.

-Ravi

>Cheers,
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