Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:55:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: iMike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/syscons saver.h ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811041047480.19324-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199811041036.TAA28358@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote:
> >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.
That sounds like a good plan. It will be a while before USB keyboards are
working I think.
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