Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 00:45:57 -0700 (PDT) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net, jkh@time.cdrom.com, 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: <199509110745.AAA12527@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199509110723.AAA01003@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Sep 11, 95 00:23:29 am
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In reply to Rodney W. Grimes who wrote: > > > > > [ 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. Hmm, does the 18 lines of assembler include the translation nessesary for X to work also ?? If so fax me the pages ! Fax: +45 9815 7586 please write Att: Soren Schmidt on it.. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org | sos@login.dknet.dk) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time
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