Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 17:00:05 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Opinions thought regarding: NEWCONS, rc.conf and rc.d/syscons Message-ID: <20140824000005.GL71691@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <53F30A81.9090302@freebsd.org> References: <53F30A81.9090302@freebsd.org>
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Stefan Esser wrote this message on Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:27 +0200:
> As you all probably know, 10.1 will ship with both SYSCONS and NEWCONS.
>
> I'm working keymap files for NEWCONS (translated from those in SYSCONS),
> and they'll need to be named differently than before.
>
> The SYSCONF keymap names in rc.conf will not work for NEWCONS. They
> include an encoding scheme in their name, while NEWCONS universally
> uses Unicode.
>
> There are a few points that still need to be considered for 10.1:
>
> a) Is rc.d/syscons still an appropriate name when using NEWCONS?
> (I'd leave it unchanged, but I thought I'd ask ...)
Per compatibility, leave it names syscons until the old one is
deprecated.. No point is having two copies....
> c) Do we expect to warn the user when he has a SYSCONS keymap name
> specified in the rc.conf "keymap" variable, while using NEWCONS?
> (This might be a good idea, at least when the default is to use
> NEWCONS and the user might not be aware of the change.)
Yes, and then if/when syscons is removed, we remove the warning...
> d) Do we want to provide the user with an information regarding the
> name of the SYSCONS keymap configured, to ease the transition?
> (Could be done ...)
Yes...
> e) Do we want the rc script to translate the SYSCONS keymap name
> to its new form? (This might be good for people using foreign
> keyboards, if their password uses characters located at other
> positions than on the default keymap, that will be used if no
> valid "keymap" is specified.)
Yes, and make sure to print out a [big] warning to have them update
their config...
> f) It might be good to introduce "keymap_sc" (and/or "keymap_vt")
> as a value used in preference to "keymap" if defined and the
> corresponding console driver is detected. (An alternativ to
> e) that is easier to implement and still allows to have one
> rc.conf file that covers both SYSCONS and NEWCONS.)
I would say no, since they are similar compatible...
The biggest issue is if someone has a custom keymap... If this
is the case, you might want to point them to a guide/your script
for converting their custom keymap... Yes, I doubt many people are
using a custom keymap, but they are probably out there...
btw, thanks for your work on bringing FreeBSD into the 21st century!
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