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To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/syscons saver.h ... 
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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 19:30:58 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>> Peter Wemm wrote:
>> >   Modified files:
>> >     sys/modules/syscons  saver.h 
>> >     sys/modules/syscons/blank blank_saver.c 
>> >     sys/modules/syscons/daemon daemon_saver.c 
>> >     sys/modules/syscons/fade fade_saver.c 
>> >     sys/modules/syscons/green green_saver.c 
>> >     sys/modules/syscons/snake snake_saver.c 
>> >     sys/modules/syscons/star star_saver.c 
>> >   Log:
>> >   Simple update to make these work as kld and preload modules.
>> 
>> I'd like to move these to a better place.  I was thinking of
>> sys/dev/syscons/* for the code parts and leave the Makefile glue where it
>> is now.
>> 
>> I'd like to be able to configure one of these statically, with the kld 
>> mechanism we can because the code is the same for both kld and statically 
>> configured.  "options STAR_SAVER" or "pseudo-device star_saver" is what I 
>> have in mind.
>> 
>> 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.
>
>If we could move most or all of the i386 syscons to somewhere it can be
>shared between i386 and alpha, I would be very grateful.  The alpha
>syscons is lagging behind the i386 one considerably.  I'm happy with
>sys/dev/syscons.

syscons badly needs re-organization and modularization. And I am all
for /sys/dev/syscons once this is done.

However, LKM/KLD screen savers are highly i386-dependent, or i386
video card-dependent, as they are, and won't become much
architecture-independent.

Kazu

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