From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 3 12:03:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15179 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:03:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp1.erols.com (smtp1.erols.com [207.172.3.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15121; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:02:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shmit@natasya.noc.erols.net) Received: from natasya.noc.erols.net (natasya.noc.erols.net [207.172.25.236]) by smtp1.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA26915; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:01:43 -0500 (EST) Received: (from shmit@localhost) by natasya.noc.erols.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA28485; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:01:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19981203150137.D26279@kublai.com> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:01:37 -0500 From: Brian Cully To: Doug Rabson , Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: Nick Hibma , sos@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: major/minor numbers Reply-To: shmit@kublai.com References: <199812030411.NAA27727@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug Rabson on Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 10:20:52AM +0000 X-Sender: If your mailer pays attention to this, it's broken. X-PGP-Info: finger shmit@kublai.com for my public key. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Macintosh -- we might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end. -- Douglas Adams, on the Y2K problem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message