From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 23 00:52:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA15354 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 00:49:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hcshh.hcs.de (hcshh.hcs.de [194.123.40.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA15342 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 00:48:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hm@hcs.de) Received: from hcswork.hcs.de([192.76.124.5]) (2268 bytes) by hcshh.hcs.de via sendmail with P:smtp/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 09:48:33 +0100 (MET) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2 built 1998-Jun-26) Received: by hcswork.hcs.de (Smail3.1.29.0 #12) id m0zsk17-0000fiC; Wed, 23 Dec 98 09:51 MET Message-Id: From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: future of syscons In-Reply-To: <199812222356.PAA01687@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 22, 98 03:56:18 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 09:51:40 +0100 (MET) Cc: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: hm@hcs.de Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From the keyboard of Mike Smith: > Hellmuth was making noises about working on pcvt. You might want to > talk to him about having him focus on the vtxxx emulation features, and > perhaps on the personality interface so that we end up with a quality > vtxxx emulation as an option? (hm@freebsd.org) At that time i worked on a version of pcvt containing all the patches and fixes people sent in and the ones i grabbed from PR's. Further, all the ifdef spaghetti is removed (and as a result, only FreeBSD is supported anymore) and all the dead code of the "old" way of X server interfacing. The result is available at http://www.hcs.de/users/hm/hm-projects.html Pcvt needs much more cleanup and some enhancements here and there, and when i realized how much work this would be, i stopped ;-) Instead of working on pcvt, i would let it rest in peace if it were possible to move its functionality to a new modularized and open console driver. The idea of such a modularized open console driver is nice and i certainly like to work on a (pc)VT emulation for it. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 559747-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 559747-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de 22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message