Re: keyboard access with oskit-mach

2001-10-01 Thread Roland McGrath
The keyboard and video questions are really quite separate, so I am answering them in two separate threads. Anything using the oskit-mach "console" driver at all should be considered a temporary hack. For one thing, if you boot with the serial console then there isn't any device that gives you a

video mem and keyboard access with oskit-mach

2001-10-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, colortext needs to access the video buffer to poke the characters. oskit-mach doesn't provide the "kd" device it uses for that, but hey, we don't want that beast back of course. But there is this special_mem_device, and it seems this can be easily used instead. Or, I guess it could just use