this wouldnt be good for machines without internal video support as my 
quadra was for some time...unless the normal consol drivers were also in 
there and it could decied which one worked...why not just put dt with the 
right stuff set when it compiled in /etc/rc?

On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Colin Wood wrote:

> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 21:55:02 -0600 (CST)
> From: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
> To: davagatw@Mars.utm.edU
> Cc: lennox@cs.columbia.edu, masami@fa2.so-net.or.jp,
>     eweri@uni-paderborn.de, port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: HEY!!! Q700 with internal video in 832x624 !
> 
> > 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.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
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