My project wish-list for the next 12 months

[Peter Wemm]

On Wednesday 01 December 2004 05:17 pm, Foxfair Hu wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:02:40PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> > All,
>
> [....]
>
> > 1.  Keyboard multiplexer.  We are running into problems with making
> > ps/2 and USB/bluetooth keyboards work together and work with KVMs.
> > Having a virtual keyboard device that multiplexes the various real
> > keyboard devices and handles hotplug can solve this mess pretty
> > effectively.  I know that there has been a lot of talk about this
> > on mailing lists recently but I don't know how much progress is
> > being made so I'm listing it here.
>
>    How about reuse NetBSD's wscons ? I've kept an eye on it and
> thought it should be a good start for FreeBSD.

Only if it has 100% identical look/feel to syscons.  ie: same key maps, 
same ioctl's, same Xserver interface, same escape codes, etc.  If not, 
then over my dead body!

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Peter Wemm - peter at wemm.org; peter at FreeBSD.org; peter at yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5