From owner-cvs-all Wed Nov 4 02:56:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03677 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 02:56:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA03435; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 02:56:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA19582; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:55:00 GMT Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:55:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Kazutaka YOKOTA cc: iMike Smith , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm , sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/syscons saver.h ... In-Reply-To: <199811041036.TAA28358@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message