Subject: Re: Wskbd
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/24/2003 14:15:42
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 16:14:20 +0000, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
> The only thing I can suggest is trying to write a wscons display device
> driver that emulates a character-mapped display using some sort of
> terminal control sequences (vt100?) that you can then hook up to a
> serial line. (In other words: termcap in the kernel (UGH)).
Won't it be simpler to write a "pass through" emulation instead? Like
src/sys/dev/wscons/wsemul_dumb.c but with output method that simply
feed the characters to the serial, and with translate method stolen
from vt100 emualtion.
SY, Uwe
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