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... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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