Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 14:15:25 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: j_mini@efn.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MDA and VGA memory overlaps. Message-ID: <199708201215.OAA18223@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <19970820045253.28684@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> from John-Mark Gurney at "Aug 20, 97 04:52:53 am"
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In reply to John-Mark Gurney who wrote:
> >
> > WHAT project ??
>
> sorry.. I don't always include enough context.. I was replying to
> this part:
> > > > [...] or are you trying to resolve the "great
> > > > unificated console" that was kind of designed a couble of years ago,
> > > > but never implemented ??
>
> i.e. the implied discussion of splitting the keyboard/video into
> seperate parts... and actual specs of what the team descided it should
> end up looking like...
Ahh, that has been discussed, and a general solution has also been found
years ago, check the archives way back (or check terry :) )
The problem is that there is no "real" solution to this, it always
ends up with alot of compromises, the current one being the splitout
of the keyboard stuff into kbdio.c, the rest cannot truely be seperated
if the current functionality is to be preserved. Belive me, I've been
there more times than I care about being the "father" of syscons...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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