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Date:      Wed, 4 Nov 1998 09:54:43 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/syscons saver.h ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811040951140.363-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811040431.MAA27665@spinner.netplex.com.au>

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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Peter Wemm wrote:

> Peter Wemm wrote:
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/modules/syscons  saver.h 
> >     sys/modules/syscons/blank blank_saver.c 
> >     sys/modules/syscons/daemon daemon_saver.c 
> >     sys/modules/syscons/fade fade_saver.c 
> >     sys/modules/syscons/green green_saver.c 
> >     sys/modules/syscons/snake snake_saver.c 
> >     sys/modules/syscons/star star_saver.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Simple update to make these work as kld and preload modules.
> 
> I'd like to move these to a better place.  I was thinking of
> sys/dev/syscons/* for the code parts and leave the Makefile glue where it
> is now.
> 
> I'd like to be able to configure one of these statically, with the kld 
> mechanism we can because the code is the same for both kld and statically 
> configured.  "options STAR_SAVER" or "pseudo-device star_saver" is what I 
> have in mind.
> 
> I'm not sure that sys/i386/isa/syscons/* is appropriate since we have a
> machine independent isa version of syscons in sys/isa/* as well.

If we could move most or all of the i386 syscons to somewhere it can be
shared between i386 and alpha, I would be very grateful.  The alpha
syscons is lagging behind the i386 one considerably.  I'm happy with
sys/dev/syscons.

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