NetBSD vesa boot

In an attempt to test Jaren McNeil's recent contributions to a boot splash in NetBSD, I updated my boot code today and typed

vesa list

at the boot prompt. I chose

vesa 1600x1200x32

and the boot messages appeared very slowly in high resolution in a frightening resemblance to Linux. Here are the relevant dmesg differences:

@@ -51,11 +51,11 @@
 ppb1: unsupported PCI Express version
 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
 pci2: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
-vga0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0: vendor 0x1002 product 0x954f (rev. 0x00)
-wsdisplay0 at vga0 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
+genfb0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0: vendor 0x1002 product 0x954f
+genfb0: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, size 640x480, depth 8, stride 640
+wsdisplay0 at genfb0 kbdmux 1: console (default, vt100 emulation)
 wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
-radeondrm0 at vga0: ATI Radeon HD 4350
-radeondrm0: Initialized radeon 1.29.0 20080613
+drm at genfb0 not configured
 azalia0 at pci2 dev 0 function 1: Generic High Definition Audio Controller
 azalia0: interrupting at ioapic1 pin 10
 azalia0: host: 0x1002/0xaa38 (rev. 0), HDA rev. 1.0
@@ -375,18 +375,12 @@
 boot device: wd0
 root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
 root file system type: ffs
-wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
-wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
-wsdisplay0: screen 3 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
-wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
+wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (default, vt100 emulation)
+wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (default, vt100 emulation)
+wsdisplay0: screen 3 added (default, vt100 emulation)
+wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (default, vt100 emulation)

Unfortunately, the fact that radeondrm didn't attach meant that X Window wasn't accelerated which is not tolerable. Also, I learned later from Hubert's post that setting the splash image wasn't actually implemented yet (as I'd foolishly assumed). So I turned it back off in my /boot.cfg and will give it another try later.

One important lesson I learned that the /boot code doesn't actually get updated by my regular update routine, so I should make a note to issue a cp /usr/share/mdec/boot /boot every once in a while.