Subject: Re: root device
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/12/2003 10:53:37
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:33:43PM +0100, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> It finds devices by exploring the tree, and keyboard or mouse (don't
> know yet) is handled though a pseudodevice tree called HIDIOSystem.
>
> Maybe there is a way of handling it in a different way, but having the
> pseudo-device attached to the tree would indeed be the simpliest one
> from the compatibility layer point of view.
Fully implementing HIDIOSystem would not be the simplest way. We could
probably contruct fake entries based on the information about wscons
devices.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>