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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 19:36:45 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>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.

syscons does not directly access mouse. It is moused which is reading
from the mouse and feeding data to syscons.

syscons is not reading from the keyboard port directly either.
Keyboard I/O is handled in the kbdio module.  We should extend it when
we are to introduce USB support.

Kazu


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