Re: Posible off-topic

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

> > 2) Framebuffer without keyboard/VT. Common case for emebedded devices.
> >    Same thing, you use /dev/fb directly without having to have a VT
> >    console. A VT console makes no since without a keyboard.
> 
> For this case (and other odd uses) I did write a network input device
> driver, so you can use a keyboard or joystick on one machine as if it is
> on another. It needs a little more work to be useful, but I will do it if
> anyone wants (basically you need ioctls to set capabilities on input
> devices, matching the get ones, or you have to statically configure them).

Actually I like to try to implement a input filesystem in the near future.
Their was a long discussion about implementing devices as filesystems. One
of the advantages of this is that you can nfs mount devices and run them
remotely.