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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!xenlink!fsa.ca!deraadt From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) Subject: Re: Console Driver In-Reply-To: hm@hcshh.hcs.de's message of 12 Jun 93 11: 07:36 GMT Message-ID: <DERAADT.93Jun12232325@newt.fsa.ca> Sender: news@fsa.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: newt.fsa.ca Organization: little lizard city References: <1v9nrdINN412@gap.caltech.edu> <2380@hcshh.hcs.de> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 06:23:25 GMT Lines: 32 In article <2380@hcshh.hcs.de> hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes: > Yes, its taking place. There is a mailing list moderated by Julian Elischer and > 10-15 people (including the authors of syscons, codrv and pcvt) from all over > the world participating. I think I should add my list of highest priorities for this. 1. vtXXX support. The "pc3" emulation has got to go for a number of reasons. (Yes, this is #1 for me.) 2. codrv-like X code. 3. /dev/console vs. /dev/vga with syslog problem solved. 4. fast. for instance, i believe that currently the pccons driver in NetBSD is probably one of the fastest. 5. There are a bunch of functions which were being called by the rest of the kernel. Any that are not needed for a regular device driver, or for console sub-driver should be made static. *everything* must go through the console calls (ie. serial console.) > All this looks very promising to get a "united" highly configurable console > driver, which will suit virtually anybodies needs. I hope so. > But, (and thats my personal opinion) it will last some time until this gets > ready, don't expect anything before the end of the summer ... I hope before then. That timeline is too long. Long before then, others will have settled on something else. My advice, unfortunately, is hurry up or give up. I wish the best though. <tdr. -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@fsa.ca