From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 24 05:34:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA22638 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 05:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA22585 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 05:34:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14751; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:33:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199806241233.OAA14751@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: PCVT's death In-Reply-To: from Hellmuth Michaelis at "Jun 24, 98 01:53:51 pm" To: hm@kts.org Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:33:05 +0200 (CEST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to Hellmuth Michaelis who wrote: > 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 ? ;-) Well, just tell us when you are ready then, but don't expect the world to stand still inbetween.. > > 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. Well, that might be arranged, but you need to adjust to that framework then. > That would be the greatest help, right now i have no more ideas simply because > i live in an ISDN stack currently. You dont want to know how many projects I live in then :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message