Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 13:50:31 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months Message-ID: <41AF8017.4000206@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <16815.31852.46550.983276@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20041202002939.GA2834@ns1.xcllnt.net> <16815.31852.46550.983276@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Robert Huff wrote: > Marcel Moolenaar writes: > > >> > 1. Keyboard multiplexer. >> >> I actually fail to stop thinking about a complete syscons and >> pcvt replacement. You know, the one and only console >> implementation that makes all others obsolete. Big plans, little >> time, yada yada yada... > > > As long as we're talking about keyboards ... may I add "Get the > boot code to recognize USB keyboards." > (Unless this has already happened and I missed the meno. > Again.) > > > Robert Huff > Are you talking about putting a minimal USB stack into the boot loader? That _certainly_ cannot fit into boot0, and I doubt that it can fit into boot1. It might be possible for boot2/BTX/loader, but that's also quite a bit of work. I take it that your BIOS does not provide keyboard emulation for you? If not, I guess that it makes it difficult to boot to DOS. Scott
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