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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: A plea from the XFree86 Core Team
Message-ID: <1993Apr23.092240.28341@gmd.de>
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 09:22:40 GMT
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In article <1r8654INN58p@gap.caltech.edu>, glt@cco.caltech.edu (Greg Tanaka) writes:
|> 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
Thanks.
|> 2) The great vt220 terminal emulation that pcvt provides
If Helmut could be persuaded to append his code to the already
existing terminal emulator interface that is in codrv-0.1.2-alpha already...
|> 3) The great virtual consoles syscons provides (and I mean great!)
There is work underway with codrv ...
|> 4) None_of_the_three great support for other video cards like ATI
There is work underway with codrv ...
|> 5) This great console is included in the next patch kit for NetBSD.
Codrv-0.1.2 (with some slight differences to the 0.1.2-ALPHA) will be in
(read: blow up the size of) patchkit-0.2.4 for 386bsd. I don't know
whether the NetBSD guys catch this ball as well.
Holger
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