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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!glt From: glt@cco.caltech.edu (Greg Tanaka) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: A plea from the XFree86 Core Team Date: 23 Apr 1993 07:33:56 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 18 Message-ID: <1r8654INN58p@gap.caltech.edu> References: <C5wHF5.G0t@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes: >It would be a Good Thing[TM] if all of the folks working on console drivers >from all of these projects get together and come up with a single common >API (i.e. ioctl()s), at least as far as the interface to the server is >concerned. It's bad enough right now with Rich having to maintain server >binaries for codrv and pccons. It's only going to get worse. There >shouldn't be any major technical obstacles to formalizing the API enough >to ensure that a single server binary will run on any of these kernels, >regardless of the console driver used. It would be a very good thing. My wish list: 1) The great XFree support that codrv provides 2) The great vt220 terminal emulation that pcvt provides 3) The great virtual consoles syscons provides (and I mean great!) 4) None_of_the_three great support for other video cards like ATI 5) This great console is included in the next patch kit for NetBSD.