Re: Console Support for event devices.

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

> > For that other 5-10%, the event device provides all the information you would
> > need to do mouse, keyboard, etc.  However you will get ALL events destined for
> > ALL consoles/terminals/etc, regardless of whether it was intended for you or vc
> > 6 or the X-server or some x-term ... etc.
> 
> xterm? Uh-huh, how? xterms get mouse/keyboard data via the X protocol.
> 
> Actually a much more interesting project would be to write a console as
> an userspace program connecting to /dev/pty's and using input and
> framebuffers to implement all that's expected from a console. Including
> nifty stuff like complete Unicode support, etc.

Consoled deamon. This would also be useful for people who like weird
comobs like 5 displays and 3 keyboards. As for linking the input api to a
specific console bad. Consider for PDAs the only tty would be a serial
TTY/console. Yet you still would have a input device and a framebuffer.
It would be difficult to relate a input or bunch of input devices to a
serial TTY.