From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 29 16:35:25 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 442D816A4CE for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:35:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from crumpet.united-ware.com (ddsl-66-42-172-210.fuse.net [66.42.172.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD54443D39 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:35:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: from [192.168.1.102] (ddsl-66-42-172-210.fuse.net [66.42.172.210]) (authenticated bits=0)i7TGM5jr016081 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:22:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) From: Anish Mistry To: Allan Fields Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:36:36 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200408281252.22651.mistry.7@osu.edu> <20040828234258.GB34157@afields.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040828234258.GB34157@afields.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200408291236.50781.mistry.7@osu.edu> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,RCVD_IN_ORBS,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_KMAIL version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) 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: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:35:25 -0000 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 August 2004 07:43 pm, you wrote: > 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 NetB= SD > > 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 futu= re > > imports much simpler too. > > But is that reason enough? Personally I have nothing against wscons. Probably not, but I thought that porting wscons used to be on the 5.x TODO= =20 list, so I'm hoping someone might already have done some work on it and it= =20 wouldn't take too much to finish porting it. > > 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 If it can help keep a good chunk of the USB code up to date, I'd say yes si= nce=20 the more I look, the more I see problems with our USB code has been fixed i= n=20 NetBSD. Anyway I'll see what I can get done in the next few weeks. > > > - -- > > Anish Mistry > > -- > Allan Fields =2D --=20 Anish Mistry =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBMgYixqA5ziudZT0RAiejAKCEfgLgqvBi3I7N6Yjk0rs8FhDoLwCgh0qQ MV+7Auc3ryhRd8hvY1mVf3I=3D =3DCpQc =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----