From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 20 04:40:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA16471 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 04:40:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA16464 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 04:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA17747; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 04:40:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19970820044001.11623@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 04:40:01 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= Cc: j_mini@efn.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MDA and VGA memory overlaps. References: <19970820024553.03988@micron.efn.org> <199708201041.MAA17982@sos.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3C199708201041=2EMAA17982=40sos=2Efreebsd=2Edk=3E=3B_fro?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?m_S=F8ren_Schmidt_on_Wed=2C_Aug_20=2C_1997_at_12=3A41=3A1?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?7PM_+0200?= Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Søren Schmidt scribbled this message on Aug 20: > In reply to Jonathan Mini who wrote: > > I am writing a set of drivers that replaces the syscons driver and manages > > the console via two devices (and a psuedo device) where basically one device is > > the display, (write only) the other is the keyboard (read only) and then the > > psuedo device is a tty the can bind to one of each (display+keyboard pair) and > > possible more (such as a mouse) to implement a tty. Oh, I should mention that > > it would also be possible to have a tty which didn't bind a device, in that > > case it simply would never diplay anything (with no display) or never get input > > (with no keytboard), etc, etc. > > Hmm, why do you need this ??, or are you trying to resolve the "great > unificated console" that was kind of designed a couble of years ago, > but never implemented ?? umm.. no, he isn't... he's working on a different project... but I didn't know that it was discussed/designed (a split keyboard/video console) a while ago... the reason I ask is that I recently got some more diskspace that will allow me to start on this project... I haven't started writing any code, but plan on working on this part.. is anyone else working or is it one of those, would be nice projects?? -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD