Re: wscons for FreeBSD?

From: M. Warner Losh (imp_at_bsdimp.com)
Date: 10/27/05

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    Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:33:46 -0600 (MDT)
To: gbergling@0xfce3.net

    In message: <20051027134919.GA858@node26.0xfce3.net>
                Gordon Bergling <gbergling@0xfce3.net> writes:
    : Hi,
    :
    : * Thus spake Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@phk.freebsd.dk):
    : > In message <20051027133336.GA740@node26.0xfce3.net>, Gordon Bergling writes:
    : > >I am currently working on project, which refactors a lot of FreeBSDs
    : > >console code.
    : >
    : > Sorry for nitpicking, but just to make sure we're clear about what we
    : > talk about here:
    : >
    : > When you say "console", do you mean
    : > "vga+keyboard" ?
    : > or
    : > "printf(9) destination" ?
    : > or
    : > "/dev/console" ?
    : > or all of the above ?
    :
    : What I mean was 'all of the above'. My projects aims to modernize
    : FreeBSDs console in a big picture. That whould range from "simple" vga
    : + keyboard to a possible machine indepent framebuffer API.

    wscons in NetBSD can be a console (as in /dev/console) destination.
    Much like sio(4) can be a console in FreeBSD. However, it is really a
    framework for integrating one or more frame buffers (vga), with zero
    or more keyboards and mice into a coherent input system.

    It is more of a syscons replacement than a solution to the 'console'
    issues that you've been keen on working out.

    Warner
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