wscons for FreeBSD?
Sergey Babkin
babkin at verizon.net
Fri Oct 28 10:24:14 PDT 2005
>From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
>> Things that are personally crucial to me:
>> * Speed. (syscons is lightning fast)
>> * text mode mouse cursor with cut/paste that Just Works.
>> * cursor movement control code compatibility. No less than perfect
>> compatibility is good enough! The cons25 termcap entry has to work.
>
> * truly supports framebuffers as well as displays that can render text
> directly (i.e. VGA, EGA, etc.)
> * allows displays, keyboards, and mice to be tied together in arbitrary
> combinations such that each "console" can consist of zero-or-more
> displays, keyboards, and mice with well-defined behavior for what
> state is shared vs. private when multiple objects of the same class
> are connected to a single console.
And by default connects all the keyboards/mice to
the first console. This makes the installs on
the machines with USB-only keyboard transparent.
* When entering panic/debugger mode the console
should reset its video mode to the one where
the panic information is visible.
-SB
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