Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:36:36 -0400 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: Allan Fields <bsd@afields.ca> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wscons from NetBSD Message-ID: <200408291236.50781.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040828234258.GB34157@afields.ca> References: <200408281252.22651.mistry.7@osu.edu> <20040828234258.GB34157@afields.ca>
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=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-----
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