Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 12:40:34 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syscons extension: "propellers" Message-ID: <199912141140.MAA02742@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote in list.freebsd-current: > > Just in case somebody is curious, here's a screenshot: > > http://www.fromme.com/propellers/ > > That looks very interesting... It's just screaming for some kind of > mechanism which allows you to kldload the propeller code in as an > extention rather than linking it into the kernel. :) Actually, I was thinking about that myself. But the problem is that the code is very closely integrated into the existing syscons code (with a lot of #ifdef's, of course). I have never programmed a KLD before (though I will have a look into this when I have some spare time left), but it is my understanding that KLDs are appropriate for parts of the kernel which can be reasonably easy separated from the rest of the kernel. This is not the case for the propellers code. Well, it could possibly be done, but it would require some major design changes to syscons. On the other hand, the propeller code adds about 5 Kbyte to /kernel, which isn't that much. And of course, I'm not voting for putting it into GENERIC. By the way, is there interest in giving the "Print Screen" key an appropriate meaning, i.e. capturing a screenshot? I have a few patches for this to implement that, I'd just have to clean the code up and write a bit of documentation. The GIF on the above webpage was created that way (along with a small userland tool and netpbm). I'm just asking. If nobody cares, I will not bother putting more time and effort into this. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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