On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:45:28PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> I am trying to do some weird things with some custom console code and
> got stuck on the fact that our console code belives all consoles have
> a dev_t.
> 
> This patch changes the API so that rather than pass a "dev_t" to the
> console functions, the "struct consdev *" is passed:
> 
>       -typedef        void    cn_putc_t(dev_t, int);
>       +typedef        void    cn_putc_t(struct consdev *, int);
> 
> The dev_t can still be gotten hold of:
> 
>        int
>       -zs_cncheckc(dev_t dev)
>       +zs_cncheckc(struct consdev *cp)
>        {
>               int s = spltty();
>       -       int c = zs_maygetc(zs_console_addr, minor(dev));
>       +       int c = zs_maygetc(zs_console_addr, minor(cp->cn_dev));
>               splx(s);
>               return c;
>        }

I like this. On the ia64 branch I completely ignore the dev argument
and instead use a static softc. The dev_t is unknown until after
bus enumeration in principle anyway.

> The patch compiles and runs on all platforms I can currently test,
> but I'd like if some of you can give it a spin too:
> 
>       http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/console.patch
> 
> The patch just does the not quite mechanical switch, some of the drivers
> could get some mileage from the cn_arg field but I have not tried that.

I'll test ia64, both CVS an P4. Let me know when you like to
commit this so that I can schedule around that...

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