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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:10:34 -0600
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] port/devcons.c is not port-able
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On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Geoff Collyer wrote:

> I believe that the idea of console printing (if not input) is that the
> mechanism should be simple so that when the system is in trouble, it
> can still get a message out about the nature of the trouble.  So the
> more mechanism needed to get characters printed, the less likely that
> goal is to be achieved.  In particular, you'd really like the kernel
> to not block for long waiting for console output.  Admittedly there's
> a fair bit of mechanism already.

I would actually be making the whole thing simpler, but judging by (lack
of) reaction my idea did not get a good response.

Ah well, that console code is still a bit messy.

ron