Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:09:08 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk Cc: gbergling@0xfce3.net, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wscons for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20051027.140908.124085864.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <25022.1130443059@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <200510271147.13917.peter@wemm.org> <25022.1130443059@critter.freebsd.dk>
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"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: In message <200510271147.13917.peter@wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes:
:
: >A syscons replacement isn't such an enticing deal if it still leaves all
: >the 'console' issues. Changing something for the sake of change
: >without fixing the problems just causes transition pain for no benefit.
:
: Agreed.
Actually, the input multiplexing is what interests me. The one or
more keyboards part in my description means one or more at the same
time... There are likewise a number of issues relating to usb
mice/keyboards that are much better in uhid from NetBSD than from
FreeBSD.
This isn't so much about escape sequences and such.
: >Don't forget, we have to deal with the Xservers as well. Also things
: >like libvgl. syscons, with all its warts, runs on i386, amd64, alpha,
: >sparc64 and there are patches to make it work on ia64 around somewhere.
:
: ...but studying the source code, one can't help wonder if somewhere
: inside there is a small device driver struggling to get out...
wscons runs on more than just those systems and is a better match to
the hardware abstractions in the non-vga world.
Warner
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