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Date:      Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:07:09 +0200
From:      Gordon Bergling <gbergling@0xfce3.net>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        gbergling@0xfce3.net, phk@phk.freebsd.dk, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wscons for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20051027170709.GB1901@node26.0xfce3.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051027.093346.04239110.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20051027133336.GA740@node26.0xfce3.net> <22908.1130420323@critter.freebsd.dk> <20051027134919.GA858@node26.0xfce3.net> <20051027.093346.04239110.imp@bsdimp.com>

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* Thus spake M. Warner Losh (imp@bsdimp.com):
> In message: <20051027134919.GA858@node26.0xfce3.net>
>             Gordon Bergling <gbergling@0xfce3.net> writes:
> : * Thus spake Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@phk.freebsd.dk):
> : > In message <20051027133336.GA740@node26.0xfce3.net>, Gordon Bergling writes:
> : > >I am currently working on project, which refactors a lot of FreeBSDs
> : > >console code.
> : > 
> : > Sorry for nitpicking, but just to make sure we're clear about what we
> : > talk about here:
> : > 
> : > When you say "console", do you mean 
> : >    "vga+keyboard" ?
> : > or
> : >    "printf(9) destination" ?
> : > or
> : >    "/dev/console" ?
> : > or all of the above ?
> : 
> : What I mean was 'all of the above'. My projects aims to modernize
> : FreeBSDs console in a big picture. That whould range from "simple" vga
> : + keyboard to a possible machine indepent framebuffer API.
> 
> wscons in NetBSD can be a console (as in /dev/console) destination.
> Much like sio(4) can be a console in FreeBSD.  However, it is really a
> framework for integrating one or more frame buffers (vga), with zero
> or more keyboards and mice into a coherent input system.
> 
> It is more of a syscons replacement than a solution to the 'console'
> issues that you've been keen on working out.

With other words, its something desireable to have at FreeBSD?

best regards,

	Gordon
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