Bug#382983: d-i beta3 on SGI Indigo2 (IP22)
Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de> wrote:
>> The console in this case should be a standard Linux console on
>> framebuffer, but I guess that it's not /that/ standard after
>> all. Maybe Thiemo can tell us more about that ?
>
> It is not at all a standard framebuffer. The hardware allows no direct
> memory access but provides userspace-driven DMA capability instead.
> The X server uses the userland DMA for a while now, but the kernel
> uses a special "newport" console which is rather inefficient.
It's the console which I qualified of "standard", in this case, as the
framebuffer is indeed pretty exotic.
>> The console groks at least latin1, btw. Could it be that the console
>> lacks UTF8 support ?
>
> That's possible, I don't know the newport code by heart.
Christian, can you confirm that the installer uses a UTF-8 console ?
If yes, I should be able to reproduce the problem on a running system
by calling unicode_start and echoing some UTF-8 text, I guess.
JB.
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