Re: Killing the old console

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Ben Harris wrote:

> For some time now, NetBSD/acorn32 has had two sets of console drivers:
> the old console, consisting of kbd(4), vidcconsole(4), vt(4), qms(4) and
> opms(4), and the new console consisting of rpckbd(4), vidcvideo(4) and
> wsqms(4).  The latter interacts with the machine-independent wscons(4)
> infrastructure to provide the same set of services as the consoles on
> other NetBSD ports.
>
> Before NetBSD 2.0 happens, I think it would be a good idea if we could
> purge the old console code from NetBSD/acorn32.  This would remove the
> need to maintain a lot of very ugly code, simplify quite a lot of the
> remaining code, and probably reduce user confusion if NetBSD/acorn32 has
> any users.

user here! :)