Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 10:03:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Syscons CUT&PASTE functionality added...y Message-ID: <199606280803.KAA11731@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199606271702.TAA00538@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jun 27, 96 07:02:41 pm
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In reply to J Wunsch who wrote: > > As sos@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > > I looks to me like the number one reason folks run pcvt is that it > > does a pretty good job at vt220 emulation. I have a version of syscons > > that loads its term interpreter as a LKM and so it can be changed to > > some other emulation. If would could get a volounter to take pcvt's > > vt220 emu and massage it a bit, I'll help with the syscons interface > > and what extra hooks might be nessesary. > > Don't underestimate it. Downloadable charactersets, a permanent > character mapping feature (to support a multitude of charsets > simultaneously where many chars are actually in a joint subset), and > the reduction to only 8 colors (in favor of 512 different characters > total) are about the price. Hmm, downloadable charsets is also in syscons, permanent mapping also (allthough system wide not per console, easily changed though) 512 chars, no not yet :) > (There are more nifty but not DEC-VT > related features like the ability to control the VGA RAMDAC, which are > IMHO incompatible with syscons' goals.) Yep, because now we are talking features that doesn't work on all hardware and that is The Wrong Thing because: 1. There is no end to the supportproblem on this, and the percentage of supported hardware is falling by the minute. 2. The kernel size will explode if just a tiny fraction of the possible video hardware is to be supported. > I don't think it's really worth the while. So, that means we are stuck with the unlucky situation we have now, for time and ever :( > Sharing a common layer of keyboard (and mouse) drivers seems to be not > all that difficult however (don't forget the psm driver...) I havn't forgot, but I'm still not convinced that it is a good idea, I'd rather have a modular console driver, that I could modify the behavior of by loading different modules. *sigh* -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time.
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