From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jan 19 16:25:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B7D37B405 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 16:25:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACDE843ED8 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 16:25:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0K0P71e069298; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:25:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:23:31 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20030119.172331.11474060.imp@bsdimp.com> To: marcel@xcllnt.net Cc: nsouch@free.fr, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbusifying kbd? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20030119233031.GA24377@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20030119225129.A6948@armor.fastether> <20030119233031.GA24377@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20030119233031.GA24377@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Marcel Moolenaar writes: : On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:51:29PM +0100, Nicolas Souchu wrote: : > : > Hi, : > : > Has anyone already thought about newbusifying kbd? : : I've been playing with the scary thought of redoing syscons completely; : whether rewriting or importing. It's not only kbd that needs : newbusification and fb(4) is really full of ISA/BIOS stuff. : : Anyway: this is beyond just newbusification... We can't support the various PCMCIA/CardBus docking stations easily in FreeBSD right now because kbd and other 'basic' things haven't been newbusified. Maybe we should just do a wscons port, now that it has shown its use in NetBSD. wscons is very portable, but a little less user friendly than syscons. syscons gives a better user experience, but tends to be a little x86 centric. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message