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Minor Flag Day: for nvidia driver users with coherent console

Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:43:31 +0800
From: Riny Qian <Riny dot Qian at Sun dot COM>
To: onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com, on-all at eng dot sun dot com
Subject: Minor Flag Day: for nvidia driver users with coherent console

If you do not use kernel nvidia driver for the nvidia graphic card on
x86, you can probably delete this message.

With the integration of:
	PSARC 2003/432 Coherent Console

The VIS_CONS_REV is upgraded from 2 to 3 (see sys/visual_io.h). Once
coherent console detects the revision is not the current value of 3,
the system console will be lost, and you'll get the following warnings:

WARNING: terminal emulator: VIS_CONS_REV 2 (see sys/visual_io.h) of
console fb driver not supported
WARNING: consconfig: terminal emulator failed to initialize

There was an earlier old nvidia driver built with VIS_CONS_REV of 2,
and this old nvidia driver does not have a separate gfx_private misc
module in /kernel/misc. So if your system is still running with this old
nvidia driver and you also want to upgrade your system to coherent
console (after 1/12 nightly), please also update your nvidia driver to
the latest one from http://solaris-x86.eng/nVIDIA/.

Thanks,
Riny