It's currently unused outside of vidconsole.c. Gerald Hicks' fix to the
beep code from de37e4a6d2333/1998 introduced the funciton as
static. Maxim Sobolev (sobomax) made it non-static since his spinconsole
called it in c4c3b35172d67/2009. When sobomax dropped the direct call
after making spinconsole console independent in b35172d67/2017,
vidc_biosputchar remained a harmless unreferenced global. Make it static
once again.
Fixes: c7e10205ae
Sponsored by: Netflix
The console escape code standard (ECMA-48) specifies color #3 (escape
code 33) as yellow. A brown console color is an artifact of the VGA
palette, which replaces dim (but not bright) yellow with brown.
Reviewed by: adrian, imp
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34531
For historical reasons console color number 3 may be either yellow (most
consoles) or brown (VGA palette). The console escape code standard
uses "yellow", but teken color name constants appear to be based on the
VGA scheme and use TC_BROWN for color 3. Even so, the palette table
used 50,50,0 as the RGB percentage tuple, resulting in a dim yellow for
framebuffer consoles at the time teken was introduced.
Amusingly, in 19e2ce2d83 the comment on the palette entry was changed
from "brown" to "dark yellow" but the colour itself was changed from
a pure yellow to being somewhat brown.
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Accept "bright" or "light" prefix for named colors.
For numeric colors, update error message to specify that values 0 to 15
are allowed, and verify that values are in that range.
Reviewed by: imp, tsoome (both earlier version)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34512
If we start with console set to comconsole, the local
console (vidconsole, efi) is never initialized and attempt to
use the data can render the loader hung.
Reported by: Kamigishi Rei
MFC after: 3 days
BORDER_PIXELS is left over from picking up the source from illumos
port. Since FreeBSD VT does not use border in terminal size
calculation, there is no reason why should loader use it.
MFC after: 1 week
Instead of trying to set reasonable register values, save significant
register values, then prepare for font upload and then restore
registers from saved data.
This seems to fix text mode for most cases where text mode breakage
was reported.
Draw console on efi.
Add vbe framebuffer for BIOS loader (vbe off, vbe on, vbe list,
vbe set xxx).
autoload font (/boot/fonts) based on resolution and font size.
Add command loadfont (set font by file) and
variable screen.font (set font by size). Pass loaded font to kernel.
Export variables:
screen.height
screen.width
screen.depth
Add gfx primitives to draw the screen and put png image on the screen.
Rework menu draw to iterate list of consoles to enamble device specific
output.
Probably something else I forgot...
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27420
Inject \e[J to erase the initial loader screen. We have two options,
find where out cursor is and use BIOS scroll for data from boot2 or erase the
display and start from origin. Erasing the screen is easier and we also
get the screen buffer initialized.
Sponsored by: Netflix, Klara Inc.
Add settable variables to control teken default color attributes.
The supported colors are 0-7 or basic color names:
black, red, green, brown, blue, magenta, cyan, white.
The current implementation does add some duplication which will be addressed
later.
Replace mini cons25 emulator with teken, this does enable us proper console
terminal for loader and will make it possible to implement different
back end callbacks to draw to screen.
At this time we still only "draw" in text mode.
