Subject: Re: improving NetBSD
To: Ken Nakata <kenn@eden.rutgers.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/14/1996 22:32:05
> 
> > Now I have running NetBSD on my Mac at home, I enjoy from time to time
> > to do some programming on the systems code. For example I managed to add
> > support for international keyboards and to make scrolling the console
> > faster. Besides this I found one or two bugs in other code.
> 
> I'm interested in how you added the support for international
> keyboard.  Is it a portable way?  I mean, is it easy to add a new
> keyboard layout to it?
> 
> As for the console scrolling, I guess there are not many people using
> the raw console anymore, so there would be less interest (I rarely use
> the console myself.  I just run X when I need to do heavy editing).

I still use dt a lot, and I'm wondering if these changes might be mergable
into the grf driver. Even if not, I'd say they should probably go in.

Allen's the one to talk to.

Take care,

Bill