Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 15:10:06 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/syscons saver.h ... Message-ID: <199811042310.PAA02488@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 23:00:51 GMT." <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811042256570.19324-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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> > > > ...where sc0 knows how to poke around and find the appropriate > > keyboard and framebuffer devices and graft itself on top. > > This would be really nice (but I think the unit numbers should be '?' > instead of explicitly specified) and I have daydreamed in this direction > before. I always wake up when I try to think about how to get the console > working. The console is probed and initialised well before the device tree > is configured. For debugging, we really need a working console with > keyboard before main() gets called. I'm still very much of the opinion that stuff shouldn't have to be mentioned in the config file at all; that all that the config file specifies is what gets aggregated into the kernel object. Then you just want a linker set of all the console-like devices, a pointer to the current console in the set, and a hint for initialising the pointer which can come in from the bootstrap. The backdoor-style minimal console functionality is more or less essential; I don't think we can escape this reality. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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