Re: GSoC project community intro and sync

2007-04-17 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
Hi, My input in this regard is: 1) The new stack must be detach safe. I.E. no race conditions at detatch. 2) The stack must be able to take an arbitrary mutex, that is provided by the low level device driver, and not just Giant. --HPS ___ freebsd-hac

Re: GSoC project community intro and sync

2007-04-17 Thread Maxim Zhuravlev
2007/4/17, Marcel Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thanks for detailed useful reply. As for vtc(4): I've not been working on input devices because of the lack of a generic layer. Note that vtc(4) deals with the low-level console as much as it deals with user-visible terminals, so from that point

Re: GSoC project community intro and sync

2007-04-17 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Apr 17, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Maxim Zhuravlev wrote: 2007/4/17, Marcel Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thanks for detailed useful reply. As for vtc(4): I've not been working on input devices because of the lack of a generic layer. Note that vtc(4) deals with the low-level console as much as it

Re: GSoC project community intro and sync

2007-04-17 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:21 AM, thIOretic wrote: I would like to get info from everyone, who may take similar efforts in FreeBSD input handling. I'm aware of * newpsm framework * KGI/KII * vtc(4) was mentioned, but its code seems to do nothing from my project thesis perspective. Or I've mi

GSoC project community intro and sync

2007-04-17 Thread thIOretic
Hi, hackers. I'm working on 'Generic input device layer' GSoC2007 project (http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2007). This mail is actually to introduce my ideas and to synchronize it with current community efforts. --Intro-- The project addresses input devices handling and multiplexing. The