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Date:      Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:20:43 +0000
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr>
Cc:        "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: the mythical syscons redesign document ( was Re: Porting wscons )
Message-ID:  <200301230920.43976.dfr@nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030122223626.B8449@armor.fastether>
References:  <20030122010246.52789.qmail@web13404.mail.yahoo.com> <1043236066.28124.6.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> <20030122223626.B8449@armor.fastether>

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On Wednesday 22 January 2003 9:36 pm, Nicolas Souchu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:47:46AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > I think the right approach will be to define
> > a set of interfaces for the video console and then implement those
> > interfaces using the lower-level kobj system. This allows you to
> > put together a working console output system before the rest of the
> > system is up and running.
>
> What is called the kobj interface?

Kobj is just the low-level method dispatch framework which newbus (at=20
least newbus in 5.x) uses to call the drivers. Look at the kobj(9)=20
manpage.

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