In message <Iov2gVy6LiYEE0pxQB@zelux6> Matthias Drochner writes:
: Needless to say theat the current situation wrt console
: drivers is a mess. This is most true for the i386, but at least
: alpha and bebox have similar hardware and could share
: some code.

The arc/pica port alos could share this code as well.  These boxes are
"just" PC motherboards witha  MIPS chip tossed on.  Well, some of them
have more doodads glued on, but this is fairly close first order
approximation...

Warner