From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 24 05:02:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA16875 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 05:02:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.ppp.net (mail.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA16861 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 05:02:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ernie!bert.kts.org!hm@ppp.net) Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc2.ppp.net [194.64.12.42]) by mail.ppp.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA03127; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:02:01 +0200 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0yooFV-002ZjcC; Wed, 24 Jun 98 14:02 MET DST Received: from bert.kts.org(really [194.55.156.2]) by ernie.kts.org via sendmail with smtp id for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:58:44 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.91 1997-Jan-14 #3 built 1998-Feb-14) Received: by bert.kts.org via sendmail with stdio id for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:53:51 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.94 1997-Apr-22 #1 built 1998-Jun-6) Message-Id: From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: PCVT's death In-Reply-To: <6766.898632269@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jun 23, 98 01:04:29 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:53:51 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers) Organization: Kitchen Table Systems Reply-To: hm@kts.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > "Hey, Hellmuth, don't you think it's time to update pcvt and better > integrate it into FreeBSD?" :-) Thanks for asking that question, Jordan! :-) Yes, i think the time has come to do something, but you know, i'm currently putting all my spare time into this ISDN project, and as soon as this has settled a bit, i'll work on updating pcvt and better integrate it into FreeBSD, ok ? ;-) > Even better, do you have any areas in which you'd like some help? The best thing were a framework for handling lowlevel keyboard stuff, video stuff, (for those who want it) mouse stuff and X11 stuff in which all sorts of emulations and fancy things can live. The great unified console driver we talk about since 386BSD. This would mean that all the nitty-gritty stuff would be done only once and not duplicated in all drivers and one could really concentrate on the emulation. That would be the greatest help, right now i have no more ideas simply because i live in an ISDN stack currently. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@kts.org Hamburg, Europe A duck is like a bicycle because they both have two wheels except the duck (terry@cs.weber.edu) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message