[PATCH] change beastie menu to support booting on R3000 laptop

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:13:23AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 25 March 2005 02:41 pm, David O'Brien wrote:
> > I'd like to change the beastie.4th menu to have a "safe" keyboard option
> > instead of a USB specific one.  This changes hint.atkbd.0.flags from 0x1
> > to 0x9.  I'm open to a better term than "safe keyboard" as it is too
> > close to the full-fledged "safe mode".
> >
> > Does anyone know if this will cause any system problems using a USB
> > keyboard?
> 
> I don't think this is appropriate as the 0x8 hint should really only be used 
> for the R3000 and not for any old machine that wants to use a USB keyboard.

Agreed for the running OS one wants to use 0x1.  But what about in the
installer?  If there isn't harm to either the 0x8 needing case nor 0x1
needing case if 0x9 is used; then why not create the "safe keyboard"
catch all?

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)