Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 19:58:45 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> Cc: obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wanton Atticizing is bad Message-ID: <199812290358.TAA15263@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Dec 1998 05:45:11 %2B0200." <13960.20551.6406.312531@katiska.clinet.fi>
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> > David O'Brien writes: > > On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 05:32:03AM +0200, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: > > > > > > asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) writes: > > > > * The cleanups have been discussed in -core. > > > > > > > > There was no agreement about pcvt. > > > > > > I do not mind removing pcvt *after* vt220 emulation is supported by > > > > Or doing it 1st thing in 3.1-CURRENT, after 3.0-STABLE is branched. This > > makes our intentions clear, and gives pcvt people time to realize they > > either need to write vt100 emulation in syscons or loss the > > functionality. > > This still does not answer the issue. Why it has to be removed ? The author has abandoned it, and nobody else serious has stepped forward to maintain it. We need to have a single console driver, and syscons is it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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