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Date:      Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:25:38 +0100
From:      Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        marcel@xcllnt.net, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Newbusifying kbd?
Message-ID:  <20030120222538.B1263@armor.fastether>
In-Reply-To: <20030119.172331.11474060.imp@bsdimp.com>; from imp@bsdimp.com on Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:23:31PM -0700
References:  <20030119225129.A6948@armor.fastether> <20030119233031.GA24377@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030119.172331.11474060.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:23:31PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : Anyway: this is beyond just newbusification...
> 
> We can't support the various PCMCIA/CardBus docking stations easily in
> FreeBSD right now because kbd and other 'basic' things haven't been
> newbusified.
> 
> Maybe we should just do a wscons port, now that it has shown its use
> in NetBSD.  wscons is very portable, but a little less user friendly
> than syscons.  syscons gives a better user experience, but tends to be
> a little x86 centric.

But does wscons offer dynamic allocation as needed for CardBus docking?

Would wscons make kbd disapear? Or is it more than syscons?

Nicholas

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Nicholas Souchu - nsouch@free.fr - nsouch@FreeBSD.org

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