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 -- Gordon Bergling <GBergling at 0xfce3.net> http://www.0xFCE3.net/ PGP Fingerprint: 7732 9BB1 5013 AE8B E42C 28E0 93B9 D32B C76F 02A0 RIPE-HDL: MDTP-RIPE "There is no place like 127.0.0.0/8"
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