From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 22 21: 0:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAB7137B405 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 21:00:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16545 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2002 05:00:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([65.91.137.227]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 23 Feb 2002 05:00:32 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020222205016.A19371@xor.obsecurity.org> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:00:32 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: device figlet for the kernel Cc: msmith@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23-Feb-02 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:17:05AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > >> Currently figlet isn't a kernel module, but one could make it so without too >> much additional work. To play with this, first download and apply the patch >> at >> >> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/figlet.patch > > I think this should be committed ASAP. Well, the supprot for kernel console filters needs to be fleshed out a bit more so that figlet could be a KLD before it would really be worth considering. Also, a better method of sending commands to a filter is needed. > Kris -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message