Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:01:37 -0500 From: Brian Cully <shmit@kublai.com> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: major/minor numbers Message-ID: <19981203150137.D26279@kublai.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812031016440.367-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>; from Doug Rabson on Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 10:20:52AM %2B0000 References: <199812030411.NAA27727@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812031016440.367-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 10:20:52AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote:
> Can we take this as an opportunity to move syscons out of sys/i386/isa and
> share the code between i386 and alpha (and any other pci based
> architectures which might appear). We can do this now if we segregate the
> device probe and attach methods and make sure that all accesses to video
> ram are wrapped up in macros.
Has anybody looked at NetBSD's wscons? I believe it already has support
for multiple mice and keyboards, it's already cross-platform, and it
supports the USB devices.
--
Brian Cully <shmit@rcn.com>
Macintosh -- we might not get everything right, but at least we
knew the century was going to end.
-- Douglas Adams, on the Y2K problem.
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