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Re: CVS commit: [netbsd-2-0] src/doc



> IMHO, this feature was pulled up too prematurely, especially this late
> in the release cycle.
> 
> There are outstanding display corruption bugs with the feature
> (PR 25765), and I've seen discussion that it may have problems
> when using multiple VTs.

I can confirm the latter and add a new problem: it doesn't work with
an/my USB keyboard.
 
> That, and it appears that the documentation on enabling and using
> the feature is deficient.

The PR has some documentation how to set this up. Maybe we could append
this wscons(4) ? 

> I would rather see NetBSD 2.0 shipped without this feature than
> with a buggy version of it.  So, we should either back out the
> pullup or ensure that it's fixed ASAP.

Being the originator of the pullup I'm naturally a bit biased, but I
think we should go for the latter since I consider this an important
feature. Being unable to scroll annoyed me several times in the past...

Cheers,
Marc

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