FreeBSD vt(4) -commonly known as “Newcons”-, which is planned to replace Syscons as the default FreeBSD console, is now available on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. It is enabled by default, but only in kfreebsd-11 packages from experimental.
Newcons provides many interesting new features, such as KMS support, Unicode, double-width CJK characters, etc. More details are available in FreeBSD wiki.
Ironically, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is in a bit more of a hurry to deploy Newcons than FreeBSD is. The reason for this is that Newcons is practically a requirement for using the new KMS drivers. While FreeBSD Ports, in order to ensure a smooth transition, preserve support for UMS (User Mode Setting) in their X11/DRI userland, Debian supports many kernels and (contrary to some ill claims I heard) gives priority to new features on Debian GNU/Linux port, which is the one with most users and developers. In this case, it means KMS is the only option when it comes to X11/DRI userland in Debian.
Anyway, we’ve been making some nice progress. Here’s a screenshot of Newcons in action in a Debian system (running on VirtualBox, thus with VGA backend):
The idea is to backport this to kfreebsd 10.0, as FreeBSD plans to merge it into stable/10 anyway. However, it is still in the process of being tested (and being polished on FreeBSD, I hear they plan to merge it on March).
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However I do get a high-resolution console, with a xorg.conf .
But KDE/Qt applications show some graphics corruption.
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Try adjusting the shared memory to deal with the “graphics corruption”.
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February 24, 2014 at 03:26 |
Robert, given all this init system experimentation, what are the equivalents of, say, passing init=/foo/bar in a kFreeBSD system?
Some years ago, I remember reading on loader and it seemed that Debian used a system that was different from upstream FreeBSD…
Also, what would be the equivalent of passing the single as the kernel command line?
loader seems to use something like the -s option, but I would like to try kFreeBSD again.
February 24, 2014 at 16:56 |
Well, the difference is that we use GRUB as default. But nothing stops you from using the FreeBSD loader on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, or using GRUB on FreeBSD.
Each loader presents a different user interface, but when it comes to kernel parameters it’s basically the same: -s option enables single-user mode (with standard /sbin/init). If you want to replace /sbin/init with something else you can set kern.init_path sysctl variable from bootloader command-line.
I’m not sure about FreeBSD loader, but with GRUB you could do this with a command like:
set kFreeBSD.kern.init_path=/sbin/something:/sbin/init:/whatever
Note however that aside from SysV init, currently we only support OpenRC which is a replacement for the init scripts but not for /sbin/init itself. There’s also an Upstart port in the works but it is not ready yet (and sadly, given the current state of affairs, it might never be…).
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February 22, 2014 at 22:41 |
Hey, as I am unfamiliar with FreeBSD’s graphics stack, would you mind telling me if this guy is in the kernel, or in userspace? I know that on Linux, a number of people are eager to use CONFIG_VT=n, and use systemd-consoled for a userspace console. I was wondering what the situation was on other systems.
February 23, 2014 at 07:45 |
Kernel. Anyway, if you’re interested in userspace consoles, the Hurd has had one for many years.