Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 13:19:30 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: joelh@gnu.org (Joel Ray Holveck) Cc: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, hm@hcs.de, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: future of syscons Message-ID: <199812251219.NAA04572@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <86soe5ic3z.fsf@detlev.UUCP> from Joel Ray Holveck at "Dec 24, 1998 1:17: 4 pm"
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It seems Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > >> Not much has been designed or decided about terminal emulation code > >> yet. I have just a vague idea that the terminal emulator code shall > >> write to the vty's internal buffer, rather than directly to the > >> screen, and a timer routine will periodically render it to screen. > > Thats how it allready works, updating the HWscreen is totally decoupled > > from the actual SWscreen buffer. Its only a matter of seperating the > > decode of ESC something chars into a module that then can be loaded > > with the required emulation functionality. Leave the simple ones > > (backspace, enter, etc) in the main code, and let the rest be handeled > > seperately. That way one can also have a very minimalistic console > > for X only workstations. > > So do I hear a volounteer to write a generic VTXXX emulator ?? > > Can you describe a little more what you mean by "a generic VTxxx > emulator"? This may be an interesting project. For all its worth, an emulator thats compatible with what pcvt does today (vt220??), and maybe extended to support vt320 or whatever they arrived at in that camp. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@freebsd.org) FreeBSD Core Team member To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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