> 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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