Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 18:55:50 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/syscons saver.h ... Message-ID: <199811041055.SAA29225@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 19:30:58 %2B0900." <199811041030.TAA28081@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > >> 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. I had a quick look at the sys/isa/syscons and videoio stuff.. It looks like it still uses things like outb etc. It looks like it uses readb/ readw etc rather than accessing the video memory. I guess that the savers would need to be updated to do this sort of thing too. I'm really hoping that Garrett comes up with something useful for a real isa configuration system under the new framework. > Kazu > Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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