Messages in this thread | | | Date | 27 Feb 1998 20:55:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: GGI, EGCS/PGCC, Kernel source |
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tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o) wrote on 27.02.98 in <199802270733.CAA03632@dcl.MIT.EDU>:
> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:58:09 -0800 > From: Michael Schmitz <schmitzm@uclink4.berkeley.edu> > > > I hate to defend the GGI people here :-) but I think there was no mention > of routing all tty IO through EvStack, ever. Only serial lines that are > somehow (?) dedicated as keyboard input devices feed into EvStack and > bypass the tty line > disc. layer directly. > > On the Linux kernel list, people were specifically talking about > supporting *serial* terminals that sent PC keycodes, and in the message > which I quoted, there was discussion of running "ALL tty lines" into > EvStack.
Not true. It was talking about allowing "ALL tty lines" to "hook into" EvStack. There's an important difference.
> >I originally architected the tty layers so that you could support > >*multiple* serial ports doing 115 kbuad kermit transfers on a 386 > >running at 40MHz. It would be shame to change Linux so that it requires > >a Pentium II to accomplish the same feat..... > > No one suggested that :-) In fact, what would be the point of > filtering kermit data through the keyboard map?? > > Apparently so you could support serial terminals that emit PC keyboard > codes..... (I didn't say it was a good reason, mind you!)
Well, if you choose to misinterpret it, it sure sounds funny.
MfG Kai
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