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Date:      Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:38:13 -0500
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-user@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r234080 - user/marcel/vtc.sys
Message-ID:  <5F1D855D-CFDB-4C33-B00F-7466952AE153@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <B97B0042-B9C1-4C4F-A0A8-17E26D92BDD7@xcllnt.net>
References:  <201204100205.q3A25BC3095892@svn.freebsd.org> <4F844231.8000009@freebsd.org> <B97B0042-B9C1-4C4F-A0A8-17E26D92BDD7@xcllnt.net>

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On Apr 10, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

>
> On Apr 10, 2012, at 7:22 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>
>> On 04/09/12 21:05, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>>> Author: marcel
>>> Date: Tue Apr 10 02:05:10 2012
>>> New Revision: 234080
>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/234080
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>  Bootstrap the vtc.sys branch.
>>>
>>> Added:
>>>     - copied from r234079, head/sys/
>>> Directory Properties:
>>>  user/marcel/vtc.sys/   (props changed)
>>
>> Nice to see work on a syscons replacement again! Is there any  
>> relationship between this and newcons?
>
> This is 7 year old code that I started in Perforce and revived.
> I don't know what newcons is. If newcons is Ed's work than I
> think it probably has found some inspiration in vtc. I know
> Ed found the vga driver useful. Do you have a pointer?

It's in user/ed/newcons. He can probably provide a better explanation  
than I can.
-Nathan



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