From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jan 23 1:21: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C20137B405 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:21:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (mailgate.nlsystems.com [62.49.251.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E125043F18 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:21:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0N9Ki3p018625; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:20:44 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Doug Rabson To: Nicolas Souchu Subject: Re: the mythical syscons redesign document ( was Re: Porting wscons ) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:20:43 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , Marcel Moolenaar , arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030122010246.52789.qmail@web13404.mail.yahoo.com> <1043236066.28124.6.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> <20030122223626.B8449@armor.fastether> In-Reply-To: <20030122223626.B8449@armor.fastether> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200301230920.43976.dfr@nlsystems.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.7 required=6.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL version=2.41 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 22 January 2003 9:36 pm, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:47:46AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: > > I think the right approach will be to define > > a set of interfaces for the video console and then implement those > > interfaces using the lower-level kobj system. This allows you to > > put together a working console output system before the rest of the > > system is up and running. > > What is called the kobj interface? Kobj is just the low-level method dispatch framework which newbus (at=20 least newbus in 5.x) uses to call the drivers. Look at the kobj(9)=20 manpage. --=20 Doug Rabson=09=09=09=09Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com =09=09=09=09=09Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message