streamio is a generic translator with no device-specific knowledge. In the absence of a clean infrastructure of some kind, I think we would rather leave it that way than have any special hacks for kbd/mouse in it.
I think that the cases of kbd and mouse should be addressed through work on the new console server. Things like X should ultimately access all input their input sources via virtual devices provided by the console server, so that all those input devices are cleanly included in a virtual console switch. The server is already structured around this idea, though Marcus will have to fill you in on more of the details of where the needed pieces fit into that code. The work that's needed is on two fronts: the console server's virtual device interface for the mouse and for raw kbd use; and the console client's input drivers for the real keyboard and mouse hardware. On the input side, there are two different kinds of drivers to work on. For using GNUMach 1.3 you need input drivers that do the same special device_set_status calls that the old kbd and mouse translators do, which is how that kernel's built-in kbd and mouse devices are used. That is the short-term need, but something different will be needed eventually. In GNUMach 2.x (oskit-mach), those special drivers don't exist. All that exists is the low-level i8042 driver that I posted a little while back. With that in the kernel, the input drivers in the console client need to implement the various PC keyboard and PS/2 mouse protocols using plain device_read/write on the raw device channels the kernel driver provides. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
