Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 23:11:42 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/syscons saver.h ... Message-ID: <199811060711.XAA00613@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Nov 1998 09:06:58 GMT." <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811050904451.19324-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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> On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > Then you just want a linker set of all the console-like devices, a > > pointer to the current console in the set, and a hint for initialising > > the pointer which can come in from the bootstrap. The backdoor-style > > minimal console functionality is more or less essential; I don't think > > we can escape this reality. > > I still think it will be difficult to have a USB keyboard on the > console... I guess that depends on whether we're talking "traditional console" here, or run-time console. It's certainly nontrivial to do eg polled keyboard I/O with a USB keyboard, yes. -- \\ 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message
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