From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 20 05:15:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA17996 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 05:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA17988 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 05:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.7.3) id OAA18223; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 14:15:25 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199708201215.OAA18223@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: MDA and VGA memory overlaps. In-Reply-To: <19970820045253.28684@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> from John-Mark Gurney at "Aug 20, 97 04:52:53 am" To: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 14:15:25 +0200 (MEST) Cc: j_mini@efn.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to John-Mark Gurney who wrote: > > > > WHAT project ?? > > sorry.. I don't always include enough context.. I was replying to > this part: > > > > [...] or are you trying to resolve the "great > > > > unificated console" that was kind of designed a couble of years ago, > > > > but never implemented ?? > > i.e. the implied discussion of splitting the keyboard/video into > seperate parts... and actual specs of what the team descided it should > end up looking like... Ahh, that has been discussed, and a general solution has also been found years ago, check the archives way back (or check terry :) ) The problem is that there is no "real" solution to this, it always ends up with alot of compromises, the current one being the splitout of the keyboard stuff into kbdio.c, the rest cannot truely be seperated if the current functionality is to be preserved. Belive me, I've been there more times than I care about being the "father" of syscons... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..