Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 14:25:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Tom <tom@sdf.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial Keyboards Message-ID: <19980324142542.22945@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980323195200.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>; from Simon Shapiro on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 07:52:00PM -0800 References: <199803240308.UAA15837@harmony.village.org> <XFMail.980323195200.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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On Mon, 23 March 1998 at 19:52:00 -0800, Simon Shapiro wrote:
>
> On 24-Mar-98 Warner Losh wrote:
>
> ..
>
>> Yup. I want to present the same interface to the kernel that the
>> current PC keyboard interface so it would work with things like X as
>> well (this may require a lot of translation on my part, which is
>> cool). There is also a cool chording keyboard that I'd like to give a
>> go at running as my system keyboard, but that one is also a RS-232
>> device....
>
> I think modifying getty to split stdin from std{out,err} is easy. Once
> this is done, the rest will follow. Maybe getty already knows how to do
> that, or the BSD equivalent of inittab (/etc/ttys?)
>
> Console is not a problem, unless you want to re-direct the input.
> If you go for serial console, you will be sending the output there too.
> Again, the kernel may be smark enough to split the two.
The way I see it, getty's the wrong level. This is the system
console, and it should be able to handle X, for example.
Greg
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