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authorMarcus Brinkmann <marcus@gnu.org>2002-03-17 18:04:49 +0000
committerMarcus Brinkmann <marcus@gnu.org>2002-03-17 18:04:49 +0000
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+/* display.h - The interface to a display driver.
+ Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Written by Marcus Brinkmann.
+
+ This file is part of the GNU Hurd.
+
+ The GNU Hurd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+ published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at
+ your option) any later version.
+
+ The GNU Hurd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA. */
+
+#ifndef _DISPLAY_H_
+#define _DISPLAY_H_ 1
+
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <argp.h>
+#include <sys/ioctl.h>
+
+
+struct display_ops
+{
+ /* Initialize the subsystem. */
+ error_t (*init) (void);
+
+ /* Create a new (virtual) console display, with the system encoding
+ being ENCODING. A failure at the first time this is called is
+ critical. Subsequent calls might return an error if multiple
+ virtual consoles are not supported. Further operations on this
+ console will be called with the first parameter being *HOOK,
+ which should be set to some unique identifier for this
+ console. */
+ error_t (*create) (void **console, const char *encoding);
+
+ /* Destroy the console CONSOLE. The caller will first activate a
+ different console as the active one. */
+ void (*destroy) (void *console);
+
+ /* Change the active console of WHO to CONSOLE. WHO is a unique identifier
+ for the entity requesting the activation (which can be used by the
+ display driver to group several activation requests together). */
+ void (*activate) (void *console, int who);
+
+ /* Scroll the console CONSOLE by the desired amount. This is only a
+ hint, the actual amount scrolled might depend on the capability
+ of the subsystem. Negative AMOUNT scrolls back in history. */
+ error_t (*scroll) (void *console, int amount);
+
+ /* Output LENGTH bytes starting from BUFFER in the system encoding.
+ Set BUFFER and LENGTH to the new values. The exact semantics are
+ just as in the iconv interface. */
+ error_t (*output) (void *console, char **buffer, size_t *length);
+
+ /* Return the current size of CONSOLE in WINSIZE. */
+ void (*getsize) (void *console, struct winsize *size);
+};
+typedef struct display_ops *display_ops_t;
+
+extern struct display_ops vga_display_ops;
+extern struct display_ops mach_display_ops;
+
+display_ops_t display_driver[] =
+ {
+#if defined(__i386__)
+ &vga_display_ops,
+#endif
+ &mach_display_ops,
+ 0
+ };
+
+#endif /* _DISPLAY_H_ */