WARNING: Device "kbd" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 13.0.

[Mark Millard]

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com wrote on
Sat Jan 16 00:22:51 UTC 2021 :

> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 1:03 PM Hartmann, O. <o.hartmann at walstatt.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > Running FreeBSD CURRENT on a USB only platform with a customised kernel, I
> > see this
> > message all the time I reboot or log console messages:
> >
> > [...]
> > WARNING: Device "kbd" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD
> > 13.0.
> >
> > Where does this message come from and what is causing the warning? I tried
> > to identify
> > and eliminate this message, but it seems to be stuck with the USB
> > device/keyboard
> > attached to the system.
> >
> > Any hint?
> >
> 
> to eliminate the message, kbd needs to be rewritten to not use giant.
> 
> It will not be deleted before 13. I'll change the message to 14.

Other examples for the general type of question . . .


For example, various aarch64, armv7, and powerpc*:

WARNING: Device "openfirm" is Giant locked and may be deleted before 
FreeBSD 13.0.


RPi4B and RPi3B:

WARNING: Device "fb" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 13.0.


powerpc (old PowerMac G4):

WARNING: Device "agp" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 
13.0.

WARNING: Device "consolectl" is Giant locked and may be deleted before 
FreeBSD 13.0.


Note: FreeBSD has boot problems for various powerpc64 and 32-bit
powerpc PowerMacs, so some material is from somewhat older vintages
of 13. (I've not looked at the old PowerMac G3 at all for this.)

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