From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 7 03:14:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA15755 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 03:14:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA15749; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 03:14:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with SMTP id MAA24342; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 12:13:19 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 12:12:51 +0100 (MET) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Brian Cully cc: Doug Rabson , Kazutaka YOKOTA , 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 > 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. Kazu mentioned that he has working code, so let's look at that first. Support for the USB devices: I guess that I noticed, because I had to comment it out. And yes they have multiple console support. but if you can remember I put up a discussion on hackers about this and the general consensus was that multiple consoles is a bit silly, one because of cheap hardware and second because of the fact that more than one video card in a system seems to be less than straightforward, allthough it has been done. But why not have support for multiple consoles? I do not see why not. And which stack to use, I ahve no idea what the console stack on NetBSD looks like, so if you rip it out you might run into more trouble than a complete new stack would give you. So, Kazu, our star, shine some light on us. Nick -- ISIS/STA, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message