Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:24:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/syscons saver.h ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811041022080.19324-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199811041015.TAA27401@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote:
>
> >> I'm not sure that sys/i386/isa/syscons/* is appropriate since we have a
> >> machine independent isa version of syscons in sys/isa/* as well.
> >
> >Indeed. Some effort should be expended to get these two merged. Kazu;
> >do you have access to an Alpha system?
>
> No.
>
> >Would it be useful to you to
> >have one in order to get the merge underway?
>
> It will be very useful to have a test box around.
>
> I have been talking with Thomas Valentino Crimi
> <tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu> about adding DEC TGA card support in
> syscons/videoio. And in the process, we are discussing splitting
> syscons.c into several modules so that syscons is modularized and VGA
> specific code is isolated. (Soeren and I discussed this a long time
> ago and many people raised this issue several times before, as we all
> know :-)
If we can isolate the particular calling conventions of scprobe and
scattach then it should be possible to have all the common code in
sys/dev/syscons with just attachment hooks in sys/${MACHINE}/isa or
whatever. As the USB work continues, we should try to isolate the
keyboard and mouse handling code too.
--
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