From owner-cvs-all Wed Nov 4 02:26:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA00130 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 02:26:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA00121; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 02:26:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA19477; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:24:33 GMT Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:24:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Kazutaka YOKOTA cc: Mike Smith , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm , sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/syscons saver.h ... In-Reply-To: <199811041015.TAA27401@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 > 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. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message