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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