> Here's another question about consoles....  lkm's can replace existing
> support code, right?  With the right hooks, that is?  Would it be possible
> to create an lkm containing dt to replace the default console driver?

It would probably be possible.  I think that dt-like functionality once 
existed in the kernel under MacBSD (like pre-0.9 or so), so I suppose it 
would be possible to move it into an lkm (just don't ask me to do it ;-)

> Of course, this still leaves the obvious questions, namely how would X
> take over the console (or better yet, take over a single virtual console),
> and how to require a password on the console in multi-user mode.

I wouldn't know how to do the first (ask linux ;-) ), but the second is 
already an option in dt.  You can just compile dt so that it runs login 
instead of a shell on startup.

Later.

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