From owner-cvs-all Wed Nov 4 15:12:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27695 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:12:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27686; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:12:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02488; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:10:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811042310.PAA02488@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Doug Rabson cc: Garrett Wollman , Peter Wemm , Kazutaka YOKOTA , sos@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/syscons saver.h ... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 23:00:51 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 15:10:06 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > > ...where sc0 knows how to poke around and find the appropriate > > keyboard and framebuffer devices and graft itself on top. > > This would be really nice (but I think the unit numbers should be '?' > instead of explicitly specified) and I have daydreamed in this direction > before. I always wake up when I try to think about how to get the console > working. The console is probed and initialised well before the device tree > is configured. For debugging, we really need a working console with > keyboard before main() gets called. I'm still very much of the opinion that stuff shouldn't have to be mentioned in the config file at all; that all that the config file specifies is what gets aggregated into the kernel object. Then you just want a linker set of all the console-like devices, a pointer to the current console in the set, and a hint for initialising the pointer which can come in from the bootstrap. The backdoor-style minimal console functionality is more or less essential; I don't think we can escape this reality. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message