Re: kmsg --- get the boot messages

[OKUJI Yoshinori <okuji@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

From: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject: Re: kmsg --- get the boot messages
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:27:34 +0200

> We also need to decide on the external kbd interface and make
> it official (somewhere in <mach/i386/kd.h> or so). Several programs
> are shipping their own version already.

  IMO, /dev/kdb should disappear. Having two devices to read a
keyboard is nonsense. Instead, /dev/console should support an
interface to read raw key codes. Once Mach just exports a bare console
device (instead of the current cooked device) to the user space, this
would be straightforward.

Okuji