Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 20:28:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Brian Cully <shmit@kublai.com> Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: major/minor numbers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812032026400.367-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <19981203150137.D26279@kublai.com>
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On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Brian Cully wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 10:20:52AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: > > Can we take this as an opportunity to move syscons out of sys/i386/isa and > > share the code between i386 and alpha (and any other pci based > > architectures which might appear). We can do this now if we segregate the > > device probe and attach methods and make sure that all accesses to video > > ram are wrapped up in macros. > > Has anybody looked at NetBSD's wscons? I believe it already has support > for multiple mice and keyboards, it's already cross-platform, and it > supports the USB devices. I looked at it for a while but I preferred syscons' terminal emulation. Also syscons just felt faster for some reason (comparing NetBSD/alpha with wscons to FreeBSD/alpha with syscons). I haven't looked at nwscons at all. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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