From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jan 20 13:11:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6E737B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:11:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from postfix4-1.free.fr (postfix4-1.free.fr [213.228.0.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 786C643F43 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:11:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsouch@free.fr) Received: from armor.fastether (nas-cbv-8-62-147-157-163.dial.proxad.net [62.147.157.163]) by postfix4-1.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A59AFFF7 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:11:48 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 1317 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Jan 2003 21:25:38 -0000 Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:25:38 +0100 From: Nicolas Souchu To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: marcel@xcllnt.net, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbusifying kbd? Message-ID: <20030120222538.B1263@armor.fastether> References: <20030119225129.A6948@armor.fastether> <20030119233031.GA24377@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030119.172331.11474060.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20030119.172331.11474060.imp@bsdimp.com>; from imp@bsdimp.com on Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:23:31PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:23:31PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : Anyway: this is beyond just newbusification... > > We can't support the various PCMCIA/CardBus docking stations easily in > FreeBSD right now because kbd and other 'basic' things haven't been > newbusified. > > Maybe we should just do a wscons port, now that it has shown its use > in NetBSD. wscons is very portable, but a little less user friendly > than syscons. syscons gives a better user experience, but tends to be > a little x86 centric. But does wscons offer dynamic allocation as needed for CardBus docking? Would wscons make kbd disapear? Or is it more than syscons? Nicholas -- Nicholas Souchu - nsouch@free.fr - nsouch@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message