Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:20:43 +0000 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr> Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the mythical syscons redesign document ( was Re: Porting wscons ) Message-ID: <200301230920.43976.dfr@nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20030122223626.B8449@armor.fastether> References: <20030122010246.52789.qmail@web13404.mail.yahoo.com> <1043236066.28124.6.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> <20030122223626.B8449@armor.fastether>
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On Wednesday 22 January 2003 9:36 pm, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:47:46AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: > > I think the right approach will be to define > > a set of interfaces for the video console and then implement those > > interfaces using the lower-level kobj system. This allows you to > > put together a working console output system before the rest of the > > system is up and running. > > What is called the kobj interface? Kobj is just the low-level method dispatch framework which newbus (at=20 least newbus in 5.x) uses to call the drivers. Look at the kobj(9)=20 manpage. --=20 Doug Rabson=09=09=09=09Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com =09=09=09=09=09Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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