Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 00:23:29 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, nate@rocky.sri.MT.net, bde@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys conf.h Message-ID: <199509110723.AAA01003@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199509110405.WAA00820@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Sep 10, 95 10:05:25 pm
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> > [ PCVT and SYSCONS both enabled in GENERIC ] > > > > I dunno.. GENERIC is getting pretty *big*, and now the commercial > > database folks are saying that they need ALL the SYSV* options enabled > > too. Yeeks! > > IMHO, there will be more ThinkPad owners who will use FreeBSD than folks > who buy commercial databases, but I'm an obviously biased individual. ;) > > Laptops are becoming more and more common, and IBM still is the #1 > supplier, though unfortunately still uses the brain-dead keyboard > controller which doesn't work with sycons. I would not call the PS/2 keyboard controller, aka the type 2 keyboard controller. IBM fixed several bugs in this design for the MCA class machines, the detection (Gilluwe page 274 is simple) and differences (same, page 273) to work these controllers is _trivial_, Terry Lambert has said it a dozen times, and now I am going to say it, syscons is plain broken if it does not detect and deal with this trivial delta. It is all of 18 lines of assembler :-). I'll fax the two pages to any one in the world who _PROMISES_ to fix the code in syscons to deal with this. Later.... -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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