Original version by John Hay.
Simplified timestamp code by reading the time exactly when necessary.
This may slow down the interrupt handler with extra calls to microtime(),
but only in bad configurations - the input fifo should normally be
disabled if timestamps on input are being used, since otherwise the
timestamp won't be precisely associated with any particular input event.
The interrupt handler remains slowed down by one test and branch for
each input (and now DCD change) event - avoiding this is not practical
yet.
The simplifications also fixed:
- timestamps for input sometimes being clobbered by output and modem
status interrupts.
- valid timestamps not being available unless the port is configured with
vector siointrts. siointrts no longer exists.
- compiler warnings about siointr* in some configurations.
Simplified timestamp and probe code by depending on recent changes in
microtime() and DELAY() to preserve the interrupt enable flag.
enable flag instead of enable_intr() to restore it to its usual state.
getit() is only called from DELAY() so there is no point in optimising
its speed (this wasn't so clear when it was extern), and using
enable_intr() made it inconvenient to call DELAY() from probes that need
to run with interrupts disabled.
unreasonable time. I've got a PCI mainboard that simply doesn't grok
it, so continuing with a warning (and a keyboard that's working
nevertheless :) seems to be better than spin-looping forever.
time. The results are currently ignored unless certain temporary options
are used.
Added sysctls to support reading and writing the clock frequency variables
(not the frequencies themselves). Writing is supposed to atomically
adjust all related variables.
machdep.c:
Fixed spelling of a function name in a comment so that I can log this
message which should have been with the previous commit.
Initialize `cpu_class' earlier so that it can be used in startrtclock()
instead of in calibrate_cyclecounter() (which no longer exists).
Removed range checking of `cpu'. It is always initialized to CPU_XXX
so it is less likely to be out of bounds than most variables.
clock.h:
Removed I586_CYCLECTR(). Use rdtsc() instead.
clock.c:
TIMER_FREQ is now a variable timer_freq that defaults to the old value of
TIMER_FREQ. #define'ing TIMER_FREQ should still work and may be the best
way of setting the frequency.
Calibration involves counting cycles while watching the RTC for one second.
This gives values correct to within (a few ppm) + (the innaccuracy of the
RTC) on my systems.
regarding apm to LINT
- Disabled the statistics clock on machines which have an APM BIOS and
have the options "APM_BROKEN_STATCLOCK" enabled (which is default
in GENERIC now)
- move around some of the code in clock.c dealing with the rtc to make
it more obvios the effects of disabling the statistics clock
Reviewed by: bde
Always delay using one inb(0x84) after each i/o in rtcin() - don't
do this conditional on the bogus option DUMMY_NOPS not being defined.
If you want an optionally slightly faster rtcin() again, then inline
it and use a better named option or sysctl variable. It only needs
to be fast in rtcintr().
clock interrupts.
Keep a 1-in-16 smoothed average of the length of each tick. If the
CPU speed is correctly diagnosed, this should give experienced users
enough information to figure out a more suitable value for `tick'.
quite work yet, so the heart of it is disabled.
Added bdev and cdev args to dsopen().
drivers:
Fixed device names, links, minor numbers and modes.
wd.c:
Started actually supporting devfs.
diskslice.h:
Added devfs tokens to structs (currently 576 of them per disk! :-().
subr_diskslice.c:
Create devfs entries in dsopen() and (unsuccessfully) attempt to make
them go away at the right times. DEVFS is #undefed at the start so
that this shouldn't cause problems.
fd and wt drivers need bounce buffers, so this normally saves 32K-1K
of kernel memory.
Keep track of which DMA channels are busy. isa_dmadone() must now be
called when DMA has finished or been aborted.
Panic for unallocated and too-small (required) bounce buffers.
fd.c:
There will be new warnings about isa_dmadone() not being called after
DMA has been aborted.
sound/dmabuf.c:
isa_dmadone() needs more parameters than are available, so temporarily
use a new interface isa_dmadone_nobounce() to avoid having to worry
about panics for fake parameters. Untested.
variants, idea taken from NetBSD clock.c.
At least year calculation was wrong, pointed by Bruce.
Use different strategy to store year for BIOS without RTC_CENTURY
unintentionally committed):
- the fifo was completely disabled for low speeds. Apart from being
unnecessarily inefficient, this invalidated com->tx_fifo_size.
- `ftl' became a bogus name.
- the 16650 probe breaks the COM_NOFIFO() case and has other bugs
(disabled, not fixed).
Fixed bogus change of the fifo settings for the non-speed of 0. This
bug made the above fifo bug occur even at non-low speeds.
Fixed the modes of the cua devices. It isn't possible to set the uid
and gid correctly since the kernel can't know who uucp.dialer is.
Register the devswitch at device attach time. SYSINIT() is not
the right way to initialize devswitches (if anything :->).
Eventually, the devswitch should be deregistered at device detach
and/or unload time and reregistered at device attach time ... Then
some com->gone tests could be removed.
Cleaned up some other recent changes.
getmajorbyname() which were a better (sigh) temporary interface to
the going-away devswitches.
Note that SYSINIT()s to initialize the devswitches would be fatal
in syscons.c and pcvt_drv.c (and are bogus elsewhere) because they
get called independently of whether the device is attached; thus
devices that share a major clobber each other's devswitch entries
until the last one wins.
conf.c:
Removed stale #includes and comments.
device must be configured. It's hard to tell whether a reset function
should be noreset or nullreset since reset functions are never called.
Most drivers use nullreset but noreset has the advantage of complaining
if somehow gets called).
Removed old aliases d_rdwr_t and d_ttycv_t for d_read_t/d_write_t and
d_devtotty_t.
Sorted declarations of switch functions into switch order.
Removed duplicated comments and declarations of nonexistent switch
functions.
most devsw referenced functions are now static, as they are
in the same file as their devsw structure. I've also added DEVFS
support for nearly every device in the system, however
many of the devices have 'incorrect' names under DEVFS
because I couldn't quickly work out the correct naming conventions.
(but devfs won't be coming on line for a month or so anyhow so that doesn't
matter)
If you "OWN" a device which would normally have an entry in /dev
then search for the devfs_add_devsw() entries and munge to make them right..
check out similar devices to see what I might have done in them in you
can't see what's going on..
for a laugh compare conf.c conf.h defore and after... :)
I have not doen DEVFS entries for any DISKSLICE devices yet as that will be
a much more complicated job.. (pass 5 :)
pass 4 will be to make the devsw tables of type (cdevsw * )
rather than (cdevsw)
seems to work here..
complaints to the usual places.. :)
to get the definitions of TRUE and FALSE which happen to be defined in
a deeply nested include.
Added nearby #includes of <sys/conf.h> where appropriate.
- Don't print out meaningless iCOMP numbers, those are for droids.
- Use a shorter wait to determine clock rate to avoid deficiencies
in DELAY().
- Use a fixed-point representation with 8 bits of fraction to store
the rate and rationalize the variable name. It would be
possible to use even more fraction if it turns out to be
worthwhile (I rather doubt it).
The question of source code arrangement remains unaddressed.
conflicted with S3 graphics cards. Now users should put sio[2-3]
in the config file if the hardware exisst, even if the probe is
certain to fail due to an interrupt conflict. Otherwise, ports
sharing the interrupt may fail the probe if the system is warm
booted while sio[2-3] are active (perhaps under another OS). The
same problem for nonstandard ports is now handled better than
before.
That's EVERY SINGLE driver that has an entry in conf.c..
my next trick will be to define cdevsw[] and bdevsw[]
as empty arrays and remove all those DAMNED defines as well..
Each of these drivers has a SYSINIT linker set entry
that comes in very early.. and asks teh driver to add it's own
entry to the two devsw[] tables.
some slight reworking of the commits from yesterday (added the SYSINIT
stuff and some usually wrong but token DEVFS entries to all these
devices.
BTW does anyone know where the 'ata' entries in conf.c actually reside?
seems we don't actually have a 'ataopen() etc...
If you want to add a new device in conf.c
please make sure I know
so I can keep it up to date too..
as before, this is all dependent on #if defined(JREMOD)
(and #ifdef DEVFS in parts)
totally dynamic.
this is only the devices in i386/isa
I'll do more tomorrow.
they're completely masked by #ifdef JREMOD at this stage...
the eventual aim is that every driver will do a SYSINIT
at startup BEFORE the probes, which will effectively
link it into the devsw tables etc.
If I'd thought about it more I'd have put that in in this set (damn)
The ioconf lines generated by config will also end up in the
device's own scope as well, so ioconf.c will eventually be gutted
the SYSINIT call to the driver will include a phase where the
driver links it's ioconf line into a chain of such. when this phase is done
then the user can modify them with the boot: -c
config menu if he wants, just like now..
config will put the config lines out in the .h file
(e.g. in aha.h will be the addresses for the aha driver to look.)
as I said this is a very small first step..
the aim of THIS set of edits is to not have to edit conf.c at all when
adding a new device.. the tabe will be a simple skeleton..
when this is done, it will allow other changes to be made,
all teh time still having a fully working kernel tree,
but the logical outcome is the complete REMOVAL of the devsw tables.
By the end of this, linked in drivers will be exactly the same as
run-time loaded drivers, except they JUST HAPPEN to already be linked
and present at startup..
the SYSINIT calls will be the equivalent of the "init" call
made to a newly loaded driver in every respect.
For this edit,
each of the files has the following code inserted into it:
obviously, tailored to suit..
----------------------somewhere at the top:
#ifdef JREMOD
#include <sys/conf.h>
#define CDEV_MAJOR 13
#define BDEV_MAJOR 4
static void sd_devsw_install();
#endif /*JREMOD */
---------------------somewhere that's run during bootup: EVENTUALLY a SYSINIT
#ifdef JREMOD
sd_devsw_install();
#endif /*JREMOD*/
-----------------------at the bottom:
#ifdef JREMOD
struct bdevsw sd_bdevsw =
{ sdopen, sdclose, sdstrategy, sdioctl, /*4*/
sddump, sdsize, 0 };
struct cdevsw sd_cdevsw =
{ sdopen, sdclose, rawread, rawwrite, /*13*/
sdioctl, nostop, nullreset, nodevtotty,/* sd */
seltrue, nommap, sdstrategy };
static sd_devsw_installed = 0;
static void sd_devsw_install()
{
dev_t descript;
if( ! sd_devsw_installed ) {
descript = makedev(CDEV_MAJOR,0);
cdevsw_add(&descript,&sd_cdevsw,NULL);
#if defined(BDEV_MAJOR)
descript = makedev(BDEV_MAJOR,0);
bdevsw_add(&descript,&sd_bdevsw,NULL);
#endif /*BDEV_MAJOR*/
sd_devsw_installed = 1;
}
}
#endif /* JREMOD */
it `const' to inhibit compiler warnings.
Added #include of <pccard/driver.h> to get prototypes. <pccard/slot.h>
is still necessary for its side effect of exporting non-slot things.
Convert the remaining sysctl stuff to the new way of doing things.
the devconf stuff is the reason for the large number of files.
Cleaned up some compiler warnings while I were there.
floppies must have been random in 2.x since we reintroduced sorting
on b_pblkno on 1995/03/18. Drivers still initialize b_cylin/b_resid
although this is no longer used.
Removed unused, wrong function fdsize(). (Returning 0 means that the
device exists and has size 0, not that the device doesn't exist.
swaponvp() allows for size 0 by stupidly calling the d_psize function
twice if the size isn't 0. setdumpdev() doesn't allow for it.)
Continued removing /* ARGSUSED */ from drivers.
misplaced extern declarations (mostly prototypes of interrupt handlers)
that this exposed. The prototypes should be moved back to the driver
sources when the functions are staticalized.
Added idempotency guards to <machine/conf.h>. "ioconf.h" can't be
included when building LKMs so define a wart in bsd.kmod.mk to help
guard against including it.
/dev/random is now a part of the kernel! you will need to make
the device in /dev: sh MAKEDEV random
and take a look at some test code in src/tools/test/random.
to <machine/conf.h>. conf.h was mechanically generated by
`grep ^d_ conf.c >conf.h'. This accounts for part of its ugliness. The
prototypes should be moved back to the driver sources when the functions
are staticalized.
This code will only be included in your kernel if you have
'options DEVRANDOM', but that will fall away in a couple of days.
Obtained from: Theodore Ts'o, Linux
Fix the tests for being a console by reverting to the ones that
were used before the the RB_SERIAL changes. RB_SERIAL only needs
to be tested in one place. The initialization of comconsole was
wrong before the RB_SERIAL changes for the COMCONSOLE case. This
may have been the cause of the unnecessary changes.
Start eliminating #includes of <i386/i386/cons.h>. This header is
supposed to be included from <machine> although it should be
completely machine-independent and included from <sys>.
Remove a wrong XXX comment. `comconsole' is used to test for being
a console and even the tests for deciding the default termios state
are necessary (the semi-reentrant i/o routines don't handle ordinary
device i/o).
cy.c:
Sync with sio.c. The console tests are present but always fail.
free-run and doing a subtract in microtime() rather than resetting the
counter to zero at every clock tick. In combination with the changes to
kern_clock.c, this should eliminate all the immediately obvious sources
of systematic jitter in timekeeping on Pentium machines.
the first one in the config has priority. They can be switched using
userconfig().
i386/i386/conf.c:
Initialize the shared syscons/pcvt cdevsw entry to `nx'.
Add cdevsw registration functions.
Use devsw functions of the correct type if they exist.
i386/i386/cons.c:
Add renamed syscons entry points to constab.
i386/i386/cons.h:
Declare the renamed syscons entry points.
i386/i386/machdep.c:
Repeat console initialization after userconfig() in case the current
console has become wrong. This depends on cn functions not wiring down
anything important.
sys/conf.h:
Declare new functions.
i386/isa/isa.[ch]:
Add a function to decide which display driver has priority. Should be
done better.
i386/isa/syscons.c:
Rename pccn* -> sccn*.
Initialize CRTC start address in case the previous driver has moved it.
i386/isa/syscons.c, i386/isa/pcvt/*
Initialize the bogusly shared variable Crtat dynamically in case the
stored value was changed by the previous driver.
Initialize cdevsw table from a template.
Don't grab the console if another display driver has priority.
i386/isa/syscons.h, i386/isa/pcvt/pcvt_hdr.h:
Don't externally declare now-static cdevsw functions.
i386/isa/pcvt/pcvt_hdr.h:
Set the sensitive hardware flag so that pcvt doesn't always have lower
priority than syscons. This also fixes the "stupid" detection of the
display after filling the display with text.
i386/isa/pcvt/pcvt_out.c:
Don't be confused the off-screen cursor offset 0xffff set by syscons.
kern/subr_xxx.c:
Add enough nxio/nodev/null devsw functions of the correct type for syscons
and pcvt.
changes to allow devices that don't probe (e.g. /dev/mem)
to create devfs entries
this required giving 'configure' its own SYSINIT entry
so we could duck in just before it with a DEVFS init
and some device inits..
my devfs now looks like:
./misc
./misc/speaker
./misc/mem
./misc/kmem
./misc/null
./misc/zero
./misc/io
./misc/console
./misc/pcaudio
./misc/pcaudioctl
./disks
./disks/rfloppy
./disks/rfloppy/fd0.1440
./disks/rfloppy/fd1.1200
./disks/floppy
./disks/floppy/fd0.1440
./disks/floppy/fd1.1200
also some sligt cleanups.. DEVFS needs a lot of work
but I'm getting back to it..
This is still very green, but I have managed to get my modem working.
Lots of work still to do, but now at least we can commit it. /phk
Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: Andrew McRae <andrew@mega.com.au>
for return values. It just so happens that in the cases where it is likely
to fail, it is okay to change the M_NOWAIT to M_WAITOK -- and all will
be well. This problem was manfest as a panic very regularly on a 4MB
system right after bootup.
hardware. Set the sleep-on flag for the address so there is more
than a small chance that the sleep address is actually used (this
used to work by timing out). Don't bother clearing the sleep-on
flag after a timeout here or elsewhere since leaving it set just
generates a few null calls to wakeup().
Introduce TS_CONNECTED and TS_ZOMBIE states. TS_CONNECTED is set
while a connection is established. It is set while (TS_CARR_ON or
CLOCAL is set) and TS_ZOMBIE is clear. TS_ZOMBIE is set for on to
off transitions of TS_CARR_ON that occur when CLOCAL is clear and
is cleared for off to on transitions of CLOCAL. I/o can only occur
while TS_CONNECTED is set. TS_ZOMBIE prevents further i/o.
Split the input-event sleep address TSA_CARR_ON(tp) into TSA_CARR_ON(tp)
and TSA_HUP_OR_INPUT(tp). The former address is now used only for
off to on carrier transitions and equivalent CLOCAL transitions.
The latter is used for all input events, all carrier transitions
and certain CLOCAL transitions. There are some harmless extra
wakeups for rare connection- related events. Previously there were
too many extra wakeups for non-rare input events.
Drivers now call l_modem() instead of setting TS_CARR_ON directly
to handle even the initial off to on transition of carrier. They
should always have done this. l_modem() now handles TS_CONNECTED
and TS_ZOMBIE as well as TS_CARR_ON.
gnu/isdn/iitty.c:
Set TS_CONNECTED for first open ourself to go with bogusly setting
CLOCAL.
i386/isa/syscons.c, i386/isa/pcvt/pcvt_drv.c:
We fake carrier, so don't also fake CLOCAL.
kern/tty.c:
Testing TS_CONNECTED instead of TS_CARR_ON fixes TIOCCONS forgetting to
test CLOCAL. TS_ISOPEN was tested instead, but that broke when we disabled
the clearing of TS_ISOPEN for certain transitions of CLOCAL.
Testing TS_CONNECTED fixes ttyselect() returning false success for output
to devices in state !TS_CARR_ON && !CLOCAL.
Optimize the other selwakeup() call (this is not related to the other
changes).
kern/tty_pty.c:
ptcopen() can be declared in traditional C now that dev_t isn't short.
Use input buffer watermarks of TTYHOG-512 (high) and (high)*7/8
(low) instead of TTYHOG/2 (high) and TTYHOG/5 (low) to agree with
some drivers. 512 is magic and some things depended on TTYHOG/2
>= TTYHOG-512 to work; now they depend on the 512 magic not changing
and TTYHOG-512 being significantly larger than 0. This should be
handled in ttsetwater().
Separate the decision about whether to do input flow control from
doing it. ttyblock() now just starts input flow control (hardware
and/or software) and there is a new function ttyunblock() to stop
it. The decisions are the same except for the watermark changes
and allowing for input expansion for PARMRK.
When flushing input, try harder at first to send a start character
if required, but give up if the first attempt fails.
cy.c, rc.c, sio.c:
Simplify: let ttyinput() handle input flow control if it is not
being bypassed. Use ttyblock() to start flow control otherwise.
rc.c:
Use same input flow control test as elsewhere: test in a more
efficient order and start flow control at >= highwater instead of
at > highwater.
essential when I fix excessive wakeups for output-below-low-water.
In cy.c and sio.c, wake up via the driver start routine to also
eliminate duplicated code involving the clearing of TS_TTSTOP.
Always (except in code to be replaced soon) call driver start
routine directly instead of going through ttstart().
ttwwakeup(). The conditions for doing the wakeup will soon become
more complicated and I don't want them duplicated in all drivers.
It's probably not worth making ttwwakeup() a macro or an inline
function. The cost of the function call is relatively small when
there is a process to wake up. There is usually a process to wake
up for large writes and the system call overhead dwarfs the function
call overhead for small writes.
were two races:
- q_to_b() might unexpectedly return 0 (e.g, after a keyboard signal
flushes the output queue and isn't echoed). ansi_put() interprets
0 bytes as 4GB...
- more output (e.g. for echoes) might arrive afer q_to_b() returns 0.
Then scstart() returns presumably and the new output might not be
handled for a long time.
Remove unused function scxint().
Fix prototypes (foo() isn't a prototype).
syscons' output is now only about 4-5 times slower than I want.
It loses a factor of 2 for scrolling output by unnecessarily copying
the screen buffer, a factor of 4/3 for dumb OPOST processing, and
a factor of 3/2 for clist processing.
no ports are active, provided there are no polled ports and no
`LOSESOUTINTS' ports. Do a little more in the interrupt handler instead.
This is a little less efficient if there are are many active ports but
a little more efficient otherwise. Polled ports are ones with no irq
specified (as before). `LOSESOUTINTS' ports are ones with 0x08 set in
their config flags. Unless this flag is set, it will now take up to one
second to recover from lost output interrupts, if any. Some 8250s and
16450s lose output interrupts.
Improve output buffering: copy the clist buffer to 2 linear buffers if
necessary and possible instead of to 1. Handle an arbitrary queue of
buffers in the interrupt handler. Check for waking up sleepers after
copying characters out of the clist buffer instead of before.
Delay translation of TIOCM_DTR to MCR_DTR etc. so that the top level
routines are more machine independent.
Fix bogus device register in unused code.
to access it. setdelayed() actually ORs the bits in `idelayed' into
`ipending' and clears `idelayed'.
Call setdelayed() every (normal) clock tick to convert delayed
interrupts into pending ones.
Drivers can set bits in `idelayed' at any time to schedule an interrupt
at the next clock tick. This is more efficient than calling timeout().
Currently only software interrupts can be scheduled.
The ``flags 1'' in the fdc line is now only needed for owners of an
Insight tape (perhaps there aren't any? Mine is disfunctional). All
other probes are safe wrt. to the motor-control line of floppy disk
drives. Document the flag in LINT finally.
Dropping into the debugger when a break comes down the serial line is a
>MISFEATURE (1st class)< and has been put under it's own #ifdef. This
should be a magic sequence of chars instead.
For those where it was easy, drivers were also fixed to call
dev_attach() during probe rather than attach (in keeping with the
new design articulated in a mail message five months ago). For
a few that were really easy, correct state tracking was added as well.
The `fd' driver was fixed to correctly fill in the description.
The CPU identify code was fixed to attach a `cpu' device. The code
was also massively reordered to fill in cpu_model with somethingremotely
resembling what identifycpu() prints out. A few bytes saved by using
%b to format the features list rather than lots of ifs.
old type (stty) ioctls can easily bypass locking bits.
It involves manual conversion from old ioctls to new ones,
large piece of code duplicated from tty_compat.c
after ttioctl too, because it can change t_line.
Remove (TS_CNTTB | TS_LNCH) test, it is always inherits from
old tty mode and can't be reach in currently setted mode.
update what has actually been touched. This should speed up
screen access on slow hardware.
Introduced setting of "destructive" cursor size, much like
the old hardware cursor.
if (tp->t_line != 0)
test when CS_ODONE, it fails for NTTYDISC, use
if (linesw[tp->t_line].l_start != ttstart)
instead.
Reviewed by:
Submitted by:
Obtained from:
CVS:
BREAK/parity/framing errors.
Term "correctly" assumes POSIX spec. and 4.4 ttyinput() behaviour.
1) Discard BREAK/parity at interrupt level when apropriate IGN*
is set in iflag. It helps "raw" mode works even IGN* is set.
2) Zero parity (if INPCK) and framing directly in buffer
before passing it to b_to_q() in "raw" mode.
Efficency:
interrupt level: if no error occurse, only two "test" commands added
"raw" mode: buf scan incc times for parity/framing added
Reviewed by:
Submitted by:
Obtained from:
CVS:
Report floppy/tape units on seperate lines as fdX:/ftX: to correct lots of
ways the current scheme failed to end the output with \n.
Add controller and/or drive designator to the fron of several messages
that come from this drive. [It's not fun to track down driver messages
using grep over the source tree.]
Reviewed by: joerg
Let "grey delete" be a function key (default is 0x7f)
Fix the xor cursor again..
Made the backspace key generate del as default
Made CTRL-space generate nul as default.
(a) bring back ttselect, now that we have xxxdevtotty() it isn't dangerous.
(b) remove all of the wrappers that have been replaced by ttselect
(c) fix formatting in syscons.c and definition in syscons.h
(d) add cxdevtotty
NOT DONE:
(e) make pcvt work... it was already broken...when someone fixes pcvt to
link properly, just rename get_pccons to xxxdevtotty and we're done
is close to 1000000 / 960 usec so the confusion probably didn't matter.
Test for COMCONSOLE before testing for RB_SERIAL so that the RB_SERIAL
test can be optimized away if COMCONSOLE is 1.
Simplify and Uniformize style of previous commit.
(b) add a function callback vector to tty drivers that will return a pointer
to a valid tty structure based upon a dev_t
(c) make syscons structures the same size whether or not APM is enabled so
utilities don't crash if NAPM changes (and make the damn kernel compile!)
(d) rewrite /dev/snp ioctl interface so that it is device driver and i386
independant
Removed screensavers from syscons, they are now LKM's. This makes it
possible to do some really "interesting" screensavers...
Fixed bug that sometimes caused garbage to appear when leaving
"scroll-lock" history.
Reformattet indentation, it got too deep for a normal 80 pos screen.
Split up in syscons.c & syscons.h for use with the saver-lkm's.
Temporarily removed -s option from vidcontrol, savers should now
be loaded with modload.
briefly over it, and see some serious architectural issues in this stuff.
On the other hand, I doubt that we will have any solution to these issues
before 2.1, so we might as well leave this in.
Most of the stuff is bracketed by #ifdef's so it shouldn't matter too much
in the normal case.
Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi <hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp>
Display update method changed, now allways write in memory buffer,
then periodically update physical display.
Speed improvements (now > 5 times faster than the old syscons).
History now circular buffer, with changeable size.
History scroll by up/down line, up/down page, home and end.
Backtab proberly implemented.
Now space for 96 function keys, 63 allocated standard, default now
SCO/SYSV compat again as in the old days.
New keyboard definition files ~share/syscons/keymaps/*
Misc fixes for old "hacks" that broke SCO/SYSV compat.
More that I forgot before writing this...
case, software cursor now optional case. Driver must provide
raw things (what hardware do for us, exactly) as default case,
all driver features must be _optional_. Modern VGAs have internal
configuration utilities to set cursor shape/blinking which stored
into cards ROM, and syscons nuke out such features completely
by forcing software cursor. Moreover, software cursor is hard
to distinguish on standouted (or near standouted) fields and
tends to disappearse from the screen.
Set "flags 0x4" to enable software cursor now.
o Cleanup screen savers.
o Don't draw cursor if saver or blinker is active.
o Duplicated code moved to functons.
o Add more checks for blinker in progress, character lost otherwise
when blinker restore old contents.
o Reduce blinking counter to 3, too slow in old variant.
o Fix timeout code in scrn_timer(), old variant can reenter iself,
if action takes too long time.
o Disable visual bell for scroll lock mode, saved screen
becomes overwritted otherwise.
