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From: Bean <bean123ch@gmail.com>
To: "The development of GRUB 2" <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Sugguestion: separate input and output driver
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 16:09:54 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca0f59980805290109m2faa1efsba905c8a0c13ce3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Currently, input and output are bundled together, this make it quite
difficult to extend.

Input:
Keyboard, Serial

Output:
Text mode, Video mode

Now, the binding is fixed using individual module:

Keyboard + Text = console
Keyboard + Video = gfxterm
Serial + Text = serial
Serial + Video = ?

And there are mixing as well.

If we separate them, it would make things much clear. For example, the
grub_term structure can be split into two mutually exclusive parts:

struct grub_term =
{
  .name,
  .init,
  .fini,
  .putchar,
  .getcharwidth,
  .checkkey,
  .getkey,
  .getwh,
  .getxy,
  .gotoxy,
  .cls,
  .setcolorstate,
  .setcursor,
  .flags,
  .next
};

=>

struct grub_input
{
  .name,
  .init,
  .fini,
  .checkkey,
  .getkey
  .flags,
  .next
}

+

struct grub_output
{
  .name,
  .init,
  .fini,
  .putchar,
  .getcharwidth,
  .getxy,
  .gotoxy,
  .cls,
  .setcolorstate,
  .setcursor,
  .flags,
  .next
}

Integration between input and output:

Input driver <=> console driver <=> Output driver

The console driver is the central part. It accepts virtual key from
the input driver, and write to the virtual screen provided by output
driver.

-- 
Bean



             reply	other threads:[~2008-05-29  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-29  8:09 Bean [this message]
2008-05-29  9:46 ` Sugguestion: separate input and output driver Robert Millan
2008-05-29  9:59 ` Robert Millan
2008-05-29 11:45 ` Marco Gerards

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