From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jan 19 22:32:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB8B637B401 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:32:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from postfix4-1.free.fr (postfix4-1.free.fr [213.228.0.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13A8843E4A for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:32:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsouch@free.fr) Received: from armor.fastether (nas-cbv-8-62-147-157-52.dial.proxad.net [62.147.157.52]) by postfix4-1.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 91276FF0D for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 07:32:43 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 11093 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Jan 2003 06:46:39 -0000 Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 07:46:39 +0100 From: Nicolas Souchu To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbusifying kbd? Message-ID: <20030120074638.A11055@armor.fastether> References: <20030119225129.A6948@armor.fastether> <20030119233031.GA24377@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20030119233031.GA24377@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>; from marcel@xcllnt.net on Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 03:30:31PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 03:30:31PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:51:29PM +0100, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone already thought about newbusifying kbd? > > I've been playing with the scary thought of redoing syscons completely; > whether rewriting or importing. It's not only kbd that needs > newbusification and fb(4) is really full of ISA/BIOS stuff. Indeed. I'm currently working on KGI (http://www.kgi-project.org and http://wwww.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ggiport.html) and try to port it to FreeBSD. The console (graphic and input resources), focus management, and all this kind of stuff are the suject of the KGI project. KGI already have its way to control inputs vs process/console focuses independently from graphic drivers and any console implementation. Maybe we could look at it? But that's all. KGI provides a console implementation but I doubt it fits FreeBSD needs. Nicholas -- Nicholas Souchu - nsouch@free.fr - nsouch@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message