Re: small addition to keyboard driver propose with patch
dalecki (dalecki@cs.net.pl)
Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:10:14 +0100
"Stanislav V. Voronyi" wrote:
>
> In message <368A33D9.EE8CF20F@cs.net.pl> dalecki writes:
>
> >Hello:
>
> >If we are talking about proper design. Please let me throw a few bits
> >into this discussion.
>
> >Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Stanislav V. Voronyi wrote:
> >>
> >> > Another way - add to console driver unsigned short
> >> > unicode2codeset[3][65535] table.
> >>
> >> (I have 2.0.36 now and I'm not sure if this is the same with pre-2.2.0.)
> >>
> >> It could look exactly as uni_pagedir, only mapping to a different charset,
> >> so it wouldn't take much space. Probably four such tables, like current
> >> inverse_translations, if I correctly guess which charset do applications
> >> expect as input - I think it should be the one selected with ^[( and
> >> set_translate(), mostly ISO-8859-1 or user defined.
>
> >In my personal opinnion this whole unicode /gpm / blah / bloat stuff in
> >the current kernel is just plain... ehm. forgive me please: plain sick.
>
> >A VT100 console should do ASCII and maybe some additional frame
> >characters or
> >maybe even colors too. Point.
>
> >If You wont more, then go the following road:
> [road to X skiped]
>
> Why do you mean that all people must use X ? I run X once
> or two times per mounth only when my lynx absolutely can not to
You didn't understand. I wasn't talikng about anything involved with
X11.
I was only proposing the implementation of the intendid functionality
with
the xterm as a source bas to start the actual implemnetation. This
doesn't
imply to rnecessarly run the X11 server itself at all!
> show me page what I need. All other time I work with text mode
> console and if I work not on stupid vt100 but on (S)VGA console
> I want more, than stupid alphanumeric terminal can do. If you want not
> selection, multiscreen an so on - you can disable it when you do
> make config for your kernel and use console on serial port with
> your favorite vt100 (or vt52 if you like it ;-).
Yes that's what I'm doing. I preffer to work under X11 if there is need
for
fluffy features. However one can't disable the unicode desease in the
current
kernel!
Read twice. With the design propsal properly implementid. (This still
needs to be done.)
You should be able to emulate anything you where talking about entierly
in
user space without polluting the console implementation in kernel.
Marcin
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