cvs-src summary for 04/04/2004
John Baldwin
jhb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Apr 6 11:39:14 PDT 2004
On Monday 05 April 2004 12:40 am, Mark Johnston wrote:
> FreeBSD cvs-src summary for 28/03/04 to 04/04/04
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> This is a regular weekly summary of FreeBSD's cutting-edge development.
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>
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>
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>
> . contents::
>
> ============
> New features
> ============
> Ezm3 imported into base system
> ------------------------------
> Maxime Henrion (mux) imported John Polstra (jdp)'s Ezm3_ Modula-3 compiler
> into the base system. Ezm3 is a stripped-down version of Modula-3,
> containing only the code necessary to compile and run CVSup_. This will
> make it easier for people to build CVSup from source when needed.
>
> . _Ezm3: http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/ezm3/
> . _CVSup: http://www.cvsup.org/
>
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040401183758.GC44790
This was an April Fool's joke. :)
> PS2 vs. USB keyboards at boot time
> ----------------------------------
> Alfred Perlstein (alfred) committed a change to the GENERIC kernel
> configuration file so that PS2 keyboards can be plugged in and work after
> bootup. However, this same change means that USB keyboards will not be
> found by default. Peter Wemm (peter) replied and pointed out that the
> change breaks USB keyboards; Alfred responded that turning on a flag would
> make them work again. John Baldwin also replied, asking Alfred to revert
> the change, since it had not been adequately reviewed. Alfred argued that
> the change had been discussed a long time ago, and that the consensus was
> that PS2 keyboard hot swapping was more important. Scott Long (scottl)
> asked Alfred to revert the change in -STABLE since the 4.10 release is
> coming soon, which he did.
This is somewhat misleading in that the consensus was _not_ that PS2 keyboard
hot swapping was more important than USB keyboard support, neither in the
past nor now.
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