From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 00:45:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE7A16A4CE; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:45:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47AA543D4C; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:45:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j380jXJL062678; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 17:45:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j380jXQY062677; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 17:45:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 17:45:33 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20050408004533.GA62575@dragon.NUXI.org> Mail-Followup-To: obrien@freebsd.org, John Baldwin , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org References: <20050325194112.GA62568@dragon.NUXI.org> <200504051013.23855.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200504051013.23855.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] change beastie menu to support booting on R3000 laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:45:34 -0000 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? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)