From owner-cvs-all Wed Nov 4 15:45:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02816 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:45:30 -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 PAA02807; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:45:28 -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 PAA02644; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:42:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811042342.PAA02644@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Warner Losh cc: Doug Rabson , 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 16:25:02 MST." <199811042325.QAA03698@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 15:42:25 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > In message 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