1.\" $NetBSD: wscons.9,v 1.8 2010/12/02 12:54:13 wiz Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2001 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation 7.\" by Gregory McGarry. 8.\" 9.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 10.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 11.\" are met: 12.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 14.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 16.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS 19.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED 20.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 21.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS 22.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 23.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 24.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 25.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 26.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 27.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 28.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.Dd October 7, 2001 31.Dt WSCONS 9 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm wscons 35.Nd machine-independent console support 36.Sh DESCRIPTION 37The 38.Nm 39driver provides a machine-independent framework for workstation 40consoles. 41It consists of several cooperating modules: 42.Bl -bullet 43.It 44display adapters (see 45.Xr wsdisplay 9 ) 46.It 47keyboards (see 48.Xr wskbd 9 ) 49.It 50pointers and mice (see 51.Xr wsmouse 9 ) 52.It 53input event multiplexor 54.It 55font handling (see 56.Xr wsfont 9 ) 57.It 58terminal emulation (see 59.Xr wsdisplay 9 ) 60.El 61.Pp 62The wscons framework replaces the old rcons workstation framework and 63the various machine-dependent console implementations. 64.Sh CODE REFERENCES 65The wscons subsystem is implemented within the directory 66.Pa sys/dev/wscons . 67.Sh SEE ALSO 68.Xr wscons 4 , 69.Xr cons 9 , 70.Xr driver 9 , 71.Xr intro 9 , 72.Xr wsdisplay 9 , 73.Xr wsfont 9 , 74.Xr wskbd 9 , 75.Xr wsmouse 9 76