Subject: Re: pcvt (Now: MI console driver)
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Hauke Fath <hf@melog.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/15/1997 10:51:50
At 10:27 15.10.97 +0200, Juergen Hannken-Illjes wrote:
>> "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Given that it is now in use in the BeBox port (just committed today!),
>> > and that its ugly as sin, maybe a new MI console driver for all ports
>> > would be a Neat Thing.
>
>I have a skeleton of the keyboard part that it is nearly coded ...
>
>It is a generic console keyboard requiring key press/release events from
>the MD part and doing the complete translation, keyboard maps via ioctl's
etc.

A great thing, too; the mac68k port for example still lacks configurable
kbd tables for the console. And some machines have not enough video support
to do X...

>This one is on my wish list. A MI console requiring only some basic
>drawing primitives like clear-line, draw-string etc from the MD part.

	hauke


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