From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 28 23:43:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434D516A4CE for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 23:43:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from afields.ca (afields.ca [216.194.67.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1880C43D55 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 23:43:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from afields@afields.ca) Received: from afields.ca (localhost.afields.ca [127.0.0.1]) by afields.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7SNh24P079437; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:43:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from afields@afields.ca) Received: (from afields@localhost) by afields.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i7SNh2Eu079436; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:43:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from afields) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:43:02 -0400 From: Allan Fields To: Anish Mistry Message-ID: <20040828234258.GB34157@afields.ca> References: <200408281252.22651.mistry.7@osu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200408281252.22651.mistry.7@osu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wscons from NetBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 23:43:03 -0000 On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 12:52:08PM -0400, Anish Mistry wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm in the process of trying to update a bunch of the USB HID code to be back > in sync with NetBSD since there are numerous problems with our current code > that have been fixed for a couple of years now in the NetBSD code. The major > problem that I'm running into is their dependency on wscons for a few of the > drivers. Has there been any work on porting wscons to FreeBSD? It would > make this import much easier and make future imports much simpler too. But is that reason enough? Personally I have nothing against wscons. If it was ported I would suggest it by default at least provide a scrollback like OpenBSD, and obviously, syscons do. (Unless that is a feature to it.) Is another one needed? In FreeBSD there is currently two: syscons pcvt > - -- > Anish Mistry -- Allan Fields