> I was under the impression the best way to do it would be to modify the > console server in hurd, 'term' (?)
There are a few ways it could be done. We want the infrastructure in the kernel (gnumach) to use "char" device drivers from Linux anyway (for things like the serial, ps2, and parallel port drivers), so getting that working is a useful thing regardless (and Okuji has done some work on this). It may well be the case that once this general glue for linux char device drivers is working in gnumach, that it will be very easy to get the linux vt console driver working that way (though without fancy configuration facilities) and that will be better than nothing as a short-term solution. In the long term--and there is no reason one could not implement this right away--we would indeed like this to be done outside the kernel in a server, and probably term is the right place. This server would access the keyboard and display devices at a lower level, the way the X server does, as opposed to the character-oriented kernel console device interface that term uses now. (Incidentally, this is the same approach we would suggest for something like GGI support, though that might be a different server rather than term.)
