Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 20:44:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: pechter@shell.monmouth.com (Bill/Carolyn Pechter) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCVT's death Message-ID: <199806201844.UAA14394@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199806201645.MAA15443@shell.monmouth.com> from Bill/Carolyn Pechter at "Jun 20, 98 12:45:59 pm"
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In reply to Bill/Carolyn Pechter who wrote:
> > In reply to <sos@FreeBSD.ORG>:
> >
> > pcvt is dying, syscons is THE console driver in freebsd.
> > If we need more functionality we will have to extend the API with
> > those new items (allready happend once with the nw "wheel" mouse)
> > that is inherent through all of the systems drivers, nothing special
> > here.
>
> I should hope that pcvt wouldn't die. There are a number
> of us who interact with machines that don't know about SCO Ansi
> or cons25 (including my DEC boxes) and we need something which
> can do real vt100 compatibility. I really don't want to have to run
> screen for this on console screens.
Well, most machines support at386/ansi/pcansi/scoansi those will do...
The problem with pcvt is that it is lacking further and further
behind, it is abandoned by its author, and nobody seem to
really care about it, except maybe a few fanatic users :)
> PCVT will die here when it's ripped from my cvs repository
> over my dead body. 8-)
Well, you can allways stop updating your CVS tree :)
> Actually, I'd love to see a full vt100/220 emulation option put in to
> syscons to get a unified console driver -- but I'd be pretty
> surprised to see anyone do it because it's not something
> everyone wants or needs.
Well, console drivers are nowadays only used as a bootstrap into
X for most people, so a task like this is not likely to happen,
there is more important things to do...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end?
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