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authorMiod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-06-02 07:34:15 +0000
committerMiod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-06-02 07:34:15 +0000
commit2d0cfec5a1577b87a369ef243488dcabb02d66e9 (patch)
treef375a058df12e1b17754351d9307f0adf96e0ceb /share/man
parent68d44aa9ee42fd0c63b21665ae03db92b4deeee8 (diff)
Remove non-emulating wsdisplays - nothing uses them.
ok deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/wsdisplay.416
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/wsdisplay.4 b/share/man/man4/wsdisplay.4
index b3eb44fef1f..46f31932864 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/wsdisplay.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/wsdisplay.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: wsdisplay.4,v 1.33 2005/05/15 19:36:21 miod Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: wsdisplay.4,v 1.34 2005/06/02 07:34:12 miod Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: wsdisplay.4,v 1.5 2000/05/13 15:22:19 mycroft Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2005, Miodrag Vallat.
@@ -82,17 +82,13 @@ framework.
It attaches to the hardware specific display device driver and
makes it available as text terminal or graphics interface.
.Pp
-A display device can have the ability to display characters on it
+Display devices have the ability to display characters on them
(without help of an X server), either directly by hardware or through
software drawing pixel data into the display memory.
-Such displays are called
-.Dq emulating ,
-the
+The
.Nm
driver will connect a terminal emulation module and provide a
tty-like software interface.
-In contrary, non-emulating displays can only be used by special programs
-like X servers.
.Pp
The
.Em console
@@ -104,9 +100,6 @@ if the device is in use as system console.
This way, the console device can be connected to a known
.Nm wsdisplay
device instance.
-(Naturally, only
-.Dq emulating
-display devices are usable as console.)
.Pp
The
.Em mux
@@ -603,6 +596,3 @@ The terms
and
.Dq wsdisplay
are not cleanly distinguished in the code and in manual pages.
-.Pp
-.Dq non-emulating
-display devices are not tested.