Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 21:55:01 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: hm@hcs.de Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), current@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: future of syscons Message-ID: <199812241256.VAA06222@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Dec 1998 09:51:40 %2B0100." <m0zsk17-0000fiC@hcswork.hcs.de> References: <m0zsk17-0000fiC@hcswork.hcs.de>
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>At that time i worked on a version of pcvt containing all the patches and >fixes people sent in and the ones i grabbed from PR's. Further, all the >ifdef spaghetti is removed (and as a result, only FreeBSD is supported >anymore) and all the dead code of the "old" way of X server interfacing. >The result is available at http://www.hcs.de/users/hm/hm-projects.html > >Pcvt needs much more cleanup and some enhancements here and there, and when >i realized how much work this would be, i stopped ;-) > >Instead of working on pcvt, i would let it rest in peace if it were possible >to move its functionality to a new modularized and open console driver. Not much has been designed or decided about terminal emulation code yet. I have just a vague idea that the terminal emulator code shall write to the vty's internal buffer, rather than directly to the screen, and a timer routine will periodically render it to screen. Let's work together in designing this, shall we? Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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