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. -- \\ 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
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