From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jan 20 15: 1:36 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 A95D937B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:01:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F8743F43 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:01:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0KN1YMW019029; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:01:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0KN1gFq000674; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:01:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0KN1f86000673; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:01:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:01:41 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting wscons (Re: Newbusifying kbd?) Message-ID: <20030120230141.GA641@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20030120214420.83623.qmail@web13401.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030120214420.83623.qmail@web13401.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i 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 Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:44:19PM +0100, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > Hi; > > There is an interesting (but difficult to find) > discussion on the mail archives about supporting > several different virtual consoles at the same time, > and an object oriented design from the 386BSD days. > > It was never implemented, and I couldn't dig it out > anymore, but do keep in mind there was a design once > ;). So are you saying that wscons doesn't have virtual consoles at all or are you saying that it supports virtual consoles, but not in a way that allows each of them to have different properties (graphics vs text, vt100 vs ansi, foo vs bar)? -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message