1.\" $NetBSD: wscons.9,v 1.5 2002/10/14 13:43:37 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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 18.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 19.\" This product includes software developed by the NetBSD 20.\" Foundation, Inc. and its contributors. 21.\" 4. Neither the name of The NetBSD Foundation nor the names of its 22.\" contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived 23.\" from this software without specific prior written permission. 24.\" 25.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS 26.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED 27.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 28.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS 29.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 30.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 31.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 32.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 33.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 34.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 35.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 36.\" 37.Dd October 7, 2001 38.Dt WSCONS 9 39.Os 40.Sh NAME 41.Nm wscons 42.Nd machine-independent console support 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46driver provides a machine-independent framework for workstation 47consoles. 48It consists of several cooperating modules: 49.Bl -bullet 50.It 51display adapters (see 52.Xr wsdisplay 9 ) 53.It 54keyboards (see 55.Xr wskbd 9 ) 56.It 57pointers and mice (see 58.Xr wsmouse 9 ) 59.It 60input event multiplexor 61.It 62font handling (see 63.Xr wsfont 9 ) 64.It 65terminal emulation (see 66.Xr wsdisplay 9 ) 67.El 68.Pp 69The wscons framework replaces the old rcons workstation framework and 70the various machine-dependent console implementations. 71.Sh CODE REFERENCES 72This section describes places within the 73.Nx 74source tree where actual code implementing or utilising the 75machine-independent wscons subsystem can be found. 76All pathnames are relative to 77.Pa /usr/src . 78.Pp 79The wscons subsystem is implemented within the directory 80.Pa sys/dev/wscons . 81.Sh SEE ALSO 82.Xr wscons 4 , 83.Xr cons 9 , 84.Xr driver 9 , 85.Xr intro 9 , 86.Xr wsdisplay 9 , 87.Xr wsfont 9 , 88.Xr wskbd 9 , 89.Xr wsmouse 9 90