Subject: Re: Wscons. Any substitute?
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Hammond, Robin-David%KB3IEN <muaddib@databit7.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/09/2005 18:26:08
the mac68ks also dont support any wscons afaik.

thats when i learned to use screen...

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 10:23:07 -0800
> From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
> To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
> Cc: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@NetBSD.org>, Vieri Verze <vieri.v@gmail.com>,
>     port-macppc@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Wscons. Any substitute?
> 
>
> On Dec 7, 2005, at 4:05 PM, Michael wrote:
>
>> Guess what I've been writing since yesterday or so. I got annoyed enough
>> by at least 4 different drivers implementing virtual consoles with more
>> or less identical code to write a wrapper that does exactly what you
>> describe ( instead of having it in each driver... ) and which would
>> also work with ofb or any other wsdisplay driver.
>
> Cool.  Please make it generic enough that it can also be the code path used 
> by VGA-in-text-mode, yet leverages the hardware support for this feature that 
> we currently use on such devices :-)
>
> -- thorpej

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