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Date:      Wed, 04 Nov 1998 15:42:25 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/syscons saver.h ... 
Message-ID:  <199811042342.PAA02644@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 16:25:02 MST." <199811042325.QAA03698@harmony.village.org> 

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> In message <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811042256570.19324-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> Doug Rabson writes:
> : > What I'd like to see is the following:
> : > 
> : > device	kbd0	at isa? port ? irq 1
> : > device	kbd1	at usb?
> 
> device kbd? at com1
> 
> or
> 
> device kbd? at newtonkb?
> device newtonkb? at sio0
> 
> Would be very nice for me and my libretto.  This would allow me to
> move my newton hack daemon into the kernel so I can use it at any time
> after the sytem probes it.

Again, with a simple aggregation of all possible keyboard handlers in a 
linker set, this becomes really simple.

> We'll need something like this for some systems that FreeBSD will be
> running on in the future which don't have PC-like keyboard
> interfaces.  Something like the wscon abstraction in NetBSD would make
> things easier...

I think the direction that Kazu's going in at the moment is pretty 
good.

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