From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 6 13:14:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03539 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:14:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03473 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:13:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA02816; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 22:19:00 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 22:19:00 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Mike Smith cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ficl In-Reply-To: <199811062107.NAA00965@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > > Devices: Apart from video and serial consoles, disk and net devices > > > > > are currently provided for. Though, at least on the i386, it should > > > > > be reasonably easy to add access to anything that has BIOS or other > > > > > firmware support. > > > > (As a side note: I recently act as a panic detector :-) /boot/loader with > > Forth enabled dies on me after your recent changes). > > My recent changes? Which ones? Erhm... You're right, it was jkh... anyway, it screams and dies. > > I have a question concerning at-xy, cls, and perhaps get-xy words. They > > are clearly arch dependent, so if I come to implementing them (I said: > > "IF" ;-), where I should add them? And, is this so simple as > > vidc_getchar() suggests? > > You should always use getchar() and putchar(), and assume a minimal ANSI > terminal. vidc_putchar will have to become a minimal ANSI terminal > emulator. ANSI.SYS or cons25 -compatible? This also means keeping some state inside get/putchar() so that it recognizes esc sequences... Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message