From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 26 0:29:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nasu.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (nasu.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.128.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F56537B405; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 00:29:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp) Received: from nantai.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp by nasu.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.11.2/1.1.29.3/26Jan01-1134AM) id f6Q7Trc360404; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:29:53 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp by nantai.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.11.2/1.1.29.3/30Jan01-0241PM) id f6Q7Trl233445; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:29:53 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (IDENT:RUHvQOxYNA2wQ844k+FuoYlBq0NE4FTf@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.43.7]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.9.3+3.2W/3.7W/zodiac-May2000) with ESMTP id QAA25220; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:39:29 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <200107260739.QAA25220@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: John Baldwin Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: Death sentence to KLD screen savers? Comments? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:18:35 MST." References: Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:39:29 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >You can stick the screen saver in a low priority kthread and achieve the same >effect. As the screen saver accesses and uses syscons' internal structures and facilities, its operation must be carefully coordinated with syscons. Thus, putting the screen saver in a kthread will require major restructuring in various parts of syscons. It is much easier, at least to me, to just remove much of the KLD screen saver support from syscons to the user-land, than to utilize the kthread :-) >You can use kldload or the loader with the -t 'foo' stuff to load configuratio >n >files, etc. that modules can get at. Um, I know the loader can load arbitrary files in the kernel space with its '-t' option (the splash screen actually uses it to load a bitmap). But, can kldload do similar thing? It donesn't look it can... Kazu >Just pointing out that userland is not the only way of achieving your goals. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message