Date: 24 Dec 1998 13:17:04 -0600 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (Kazutaka YOKOTA), hm@hcs.de, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: future of syscons Message-ID: <86soe5ic3z.fsf@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: Søren Schmidt's message of "Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:21:13 %2B0100 (CET)" References: <199812241321.OAA02436@freebsd.dk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>> Not much has been designed or decided about terminal emulation code >> yet. I have just a vague idea that the terminal emulator code shall >> write to the vty's internal buffer, rather than directly to the >> screen, and a timer routine will periodically render it to screen. > Thats how it allready works, updating the HWscreen is totally decoupled > from the actual SWscreen buffer. Its only a matter of seperating the > decode of ESC something chars into a module that then can be loaded > with the required emulation functionality. Leave the simple ones > (backspace, enter, etc) in the main code, and let the rest be handeled > seperately. That way one can also have a very minimalistic console > for X only workstations. > So do I hear a volounteer to write a generic VTXXX emulator ?? Can you describe a little more what you mean by "a generic VTxxx emulator"? This may be an interesting project. Cheers, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?86soe5ic3z.fsf>