> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 15:16:33 +0200
> From: Frederic Cambus <f...@statdns.com>
> 
> Hi tech@,
> 
> The recent spike of interest around framebuffer consoles has prompted
> me to revisit a proposal I sent back in early 2017 [1].
> 
> Aesthetics considerations aside, kettenis@ raised the concern that colors
> from the original rasops palette carefully matched what OpenFirmware
> uses for the console on sparc64.
> 
> Therefore, I propose to default on using the proper VGA text mode palette
> RGB values, and to keep the original rasops color palette on sparc64.
> 
> The differences between the two palettes can be seen here [2].
> 
> Comments? OK?

If there ever was a true bikeshed...

I must say I like the current rasops colors better, so my vote would
be to keep things as they are and avoid extra #ifdefs in the code.

> [1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=148374502927423&w=2
> [2] 
> https://www.cambus.net/openbsd-framebuffer-console-and-custom-color-palettes/
> 
> Index: sys/dev/rasops/rasops.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/dev/rasops/rasops.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.62
> diff -u -p -r1.62 rasops.c
> --- sys/dev/rasops/rasops.c   16 Jun 2020 21:49:30 -0000      1.62
> +++ sys/dev/rasops/rasops.c   7 Jul 2020 09:10:08 -0000
> @@ -47,7 +47,26 @@
>  
>  /* ANSI colormap (R,G,B) */
>  
> -#define      NORMAL_BLACK    0x000000
> +#ifndef __sparc64__
> +#define      NORMAL_BLACK    0x000000        /* VGA text mode palette */
> +#define      NORMAL_RED      0xaa0000
> +#define      NORMAL_GREEN    0x00aa00
> +#define      NORMAL_BROWN    0xaa5500
> +#define      NORMAL_BLUE     0x0000aa
> +#define      NORMAL_MAGENTA  0xaa00aa
> +#define      NORMAL_CYAN     0x00aaaa
> +#define      NORMAL_WHITE    0xaaaaaa
> +
> +#define      HILITE_BLACK    0x555555
> +#define      HILITE_RED      0xff5555
> +#define      HILITE_GREEN    0x55ff55
> +#define      HILITE_BROWN    0xffff55
> +#define      HILITE_BLUE     0x5555ff
> +#define      HILITE_MAGENTA  0xff55ff
> +#define      HILITE_CYAN     0x55ffff
> +#define      HILITE_WHITE    0xffffff
> +#else
> +#define      NORMAL_BLACK    0x000000        /* Rasops palette */
>  #define      NORMAL_RED      0x7f0000
>  #define      NORMAL_GREEN    0x007f00
>  #define      NORMAL_BROWN    0x7f7f00
> @@ -64,6 +83,7 @@
>  #define      HILITE_MAGENTA  0xff00ff
>  #define      HILITE_CYAN     0x00ffff
>  #define      HILITE_WHITE    0xffffff
> +#endif
>  
>  const u_char rasops_cmap[256 * 3] = {
>  #define      _C(x)   ((x) & 0xff0000) >> 16, ((x) & 0x00ff00) >> 8, ((x) & 
> 0x0000ff)
> 
> 

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