Subject: Re: virtual console driver for ppc?
To: Vincent Kraeutler <vincentk@gmx.net>
From: Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/16/2001 16:12:53
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Vincent Kraeutler wrote:

> is there going to be some sort of virtual console driver for NetBSD/macppc
> near future?

	Sorry I can't predict the future. Read the thread "Slow Console
speed" from earlier this month. When those things get accomplished, VT's
should be easy to get working.

> i remember having read something about excessive memory consumption w/ bitmap-
> only screens, but i also remember having seen multiple VTY's on a linux/PPC
> box...

	Correct,as we are using OpenFirmware for console I/O.


	Chris