Re: ruby cvs first look

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 07:54:41PM +0000, James Simmons wrote:

> > Yes it's boot!
> > 
> > Around the code popup currcons mismatch.
> > find_vc() vc_allocate() good only for one console.
> 
>    I know :-( The current problem is the beeper and the keyboard. In the 
> original ruby we didn't have the beeper converted over to the input api. 
> This made life easier. Now we do. This means both the keyboard and beeper 
> are registered to the keyboard console handler. Because the old ruby code 
> assumed it was always a keyboard this means the beeper is seen as a 
> keyboard. Of course this is bad!! So what is the solution?
> 
>    Well first we to see what possible combinations we can have. They are:
> 
> 1) The beeper is built into the keyboard. Sparc keyboard i.e
> 
> 2) Seperate beepers but we have more than one.
> 
> 3) Only one beeper. 
> 
> Now 1 and 3 are very common. The first solution I thought of was having 
> two struct input_handlers in struct vt_struct. One for keyboard and the 
> second for the beeper. For the keyboard with the built in speaker both 
> handlers would point to the same device. For the PC we have to attach the 
> speaker to the first VT we find without a speaker. This can be easliy 
> handled by first testing the incoming input device handles keys. Then we 
> test it right away to see if it has a speaker. Now the question is what do 
> we do for a "global" speaker. For example I have two PS/2 keybaords but 
> one PC speaker. Do we share it.Then there is the issue if two users want 
> to reprogram the  beeper to be at two different rates. The hardware can't 
> be at two different rates at the same time. Vojtech do you have any ideas 
> on how to handle this?

I would assign the beeper to the first keyboard and make it all
configurable by the user - you really only need to have one keyboard,
one screen, and one beeper running after boot and the rest
(reassignment, etc) can be taken care of by the init scripts.

> > small patch allow me start ruby with single VGA, single XFree.
> 
> I will apply the patches tomorrow morning. Thanks.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs