Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:43:02 -0400 From: Allan Fields <bsd@afields.ca> To: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wscons from NetBSD Message-ID: <20040828234258.GB34157@afields.ca> In-Reply-To: <200408281252.22651.mistry.7@osu.edu> References: <200408281252.22651.mistry.7@osu.edu>
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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
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