Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:33:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: hm@kts.org Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCVT's death Message-ID: <199806241233.OAA14751@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <m0yoo7b-000027C@bert.kts.org> from Hellmuth Michaelis at "Jun 24, 98 01:53:51 pm"
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In reply to Hellmuth Michaelis who wrote:
> Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
> > "Hey, Hellmuth, don't you think it's time to update pcvt and better
> > integrate it into FreeBSD?" :-)
>
> Thanks for asking that question, Jordan! :-)
>
> Yes, i think the time has come to do something, but you know, i'm currently
> putting all my spare time into this ISDN project, and as soon as this has
> settled a bit, i'll work on updating pcvt and better integrate it into
> FreeBSD, ok ? ;-)
Well, just tell us when you are ready then, but don't expect the world
to stand still inbetween..
> > Even better, do you have any areas in which you'd like some help?
>
> The best thing were a framework for handling lowlevel keyboard stuff, video
> stuff, (for those who want it) mouse stuff and X11 stuff in which all sorts
> of emulations and fancy things can live. The great unified console driver we
> talk about since 386BSD. This would mean that all the nitty-gritty stuff would
> be done only once and not duplicated in all drivers and one could really
> concentrate on the emulation.
Well, that might be arranged, but you need to adjust to that framework then.
> That would be the greatest help, right now i have no more ideas simply because
> i live in an ISDN stack currently.
You dont want to know how many projects I live in then :)
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