Re: [RFC] new APIs to use wskbd(4) input on non-wsdisplay tty devices
Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Apr 2024 09:15:10 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.news68k |
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On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 09:13:17AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2024 at 11:56:27PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote: > > > > I'd like to add new APIs to use wskbd(4) input on non-wsdisplay > > tty devices, especially news68k that can use a putchar function > > provided by firmware PROM as a kernel console device. > > Wouldn't a tty be a better abstraction for this? Lots of minicomputers > had incredibly dumb serial consoles. I think the above is not clear. To rephrase my question: what is the wscons layer actually adding here? Would it not be simpler to interface at the tty layer instead? Thor