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Date:      Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:57:39 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        Gordon Bergling <gbergling@0xfce3.net>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wscons for FreeBSD? 
Message-ID:  <25022.1130443059@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:47:13 PDT." <200510271147.13917.peter@wemm.org> 

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In message <200510271147.13917.peter@wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes:

>A syscons replacement isn't such an enticing deal if it still leaves all 
>the 'console' issues.  Changing something for the sake of change 
>without fixing the problems just causes transition pain for no benefit.

Agreed.

>Don't forget, we have to deal with the Xservers as well.  Also things 
>like libvgl.  syscons, with all its warts, runs on i386, amd64, alpha, 
>sparc64 and there are patches to make it work on ia64 around somewhere.  

...but studying the source code, one can't help wonder if somewhere
inside there is a small device driver struggling to get out...

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