Synced with test9

[James S. <jsi...@su...>]

Hi folks.

  Sorry I have been quite but I was busy moving. Now it is time to get
back to work. The current tree is now against test9. Now that I'm at SuSE
I have alot og hardware at my disposal. With the current CVS code I have
tested it with regualr keyboard, USB keyboard and with a USB mouse, PS/2
mouse and serial mouse. I couldn't get the serial mouse to work :-(
Strange that my serial mouse at home worked. The rest worked fine. Also I
didn't get a gravis exterminator joystick working either. Well something
to work on. 

   Now for the video stuff. BTW Jason I did see your patch posted and will
be taking a look at it soon. Thanks. I'm currently working on working on
the ability to go from vgacon to fbcon and back. This will allow the
ability to debug fbdev drivers very easily. Also one of the main features
missing that will allow the removal of consoel code from fbdev drivers is
the lack of moving from a fbdev driver to vgacon. Once this is done we can
test fbdev drivers on vgacon systems with easy.