wscons for FreeBSD?

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 28 October 2005 01:24 pm, Sergey Babkin wrote:
> >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.

Yes.

> * When entering panic/debugger mode the console
>   should reset its video mode to the one where
>   the panic information is visible.

I think this might be kind of hard since you really don't know what X has done 
to the hardware unless you make X talk to the console driver to do 
everything.

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