On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> i've managed to successfully boot a wscons display+keyboard for the
> RiscPC.
>
> Lost of work needs to be done on it though ... esp. wsmouse and X support.
> There are also still some issues with colour maps and accelleration.
>
> In contrast to other wscons implementations, i've maximised the character
> area to the maximum for all display modes independent of the font size.
> The FONT_VT220L8x16 gives a good aproximation of the old console screen
> sizes but FONT_GALLANT12x22 remains my favourite though :)
>
> Dynamic fontloading and multiple virtual consoles is not supported yet as
> are resolution changing; these areas will be adressed later.
>
> I'm now in the phase of code cleaning and review and will try to commit it
> soon.
>
> The two consoles (vidcconsole and wscons) are exclusive choises now but
> co-exist in the current source tree. Selection between the two is now done
> at config time.

	Great news! - do we have any idea of what is still missing from
	the old console driver?

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