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Date:      Thu, 05 Nov 1998 00:38:53 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
Cc:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/syscons saver.h ... 
Message-ID:  <199811050838.AAA01036@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 19:30:58 %2B0900." <199811041030.TAA28081@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> 

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> However, LKM/KLD screen savers are highly i386-dependent, or i386
> video card-dependent, as they are, and won't become much
> architecture-independent.

Actually, given the current state of play, the screen savers 
*shouldn't* be at all i386-dependant; they all assume a very high-level 
interface (coloured character cell display) which should be easily 
provided on top of almost any hardware.

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