Hi, I've tested for this vt(4) issue in upstream's own kernel build from: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/10.0-STABLE and it is affected as well. It is only a problem when using Qemu with the "-enable-kvm" option (and some virtualisation platforms will do this) :
On 08/08/14 01:52, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > With hw.vga.textmode=1, it takes about a second for the first kernel > messages to fill the screen; the only apparent delay here would be the > kernel doing things between printing each line of output. > > With hw.vga.textmode=0, the same takes about 6 seconds, with noticeable > delay between printing each character (like a really slow serial tty) > and even slower once the screen is filled and starts to scroll. I could file a FreeBSD PR about this 'soon', but can't right now, sorry. Thanks, Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
