From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 3 12:28:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17413 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:28:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17396; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:28:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA63909; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 20:28:11 GMT Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 20:28:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Brian Cully cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA , Nick Hibma , sos@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: major/minor numbers In-Reply-To: <19981203150137.D26279@kublai.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Brian Cully wrote: > 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. I looked at it for a while but I preferred syscons' terminal emulation. Also syscons just felt faster for some reason (comparing NetBSD/alpha with wscons to FreeBSD/alpha with syscons). I haven't looked at nwscons at all. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message