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Date:      Fri, 3 Jan 2020 00:35:51 +0000
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r355936 - in head/sys: arm/broadcom/bcm2835 arm/freescale/imx arm/ti/am335x arm/versatile powerpc/ofw
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On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 03:14:07PM -0600, Kyle Evans wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 10:22 AM Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > Author: kevans
> > Date: Fri Dec 20 16:22:14 2019
> > New Revision: 355936
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/355936
> >
> > Log:
> >   Kill off dummy kbd drivers
> >
> >   As far as I can tell, these are an artifact of times when linker sets
> >   couldn't be empty, otherwise the kernel build would fail due to unres=
olved
> >   symbols. hselasky fixed this in r268138, and I've audited the kbd por=
tions
> >   to make sure nothing would blow up due to the empty linker set and
> >   successfully compiled+ran a kernel with no keyboard support at all.
> >
> >   Kill them off now since they're no longer required.
> >
> >   MFC after:    1 week
> >
>=20
> It turns out that I missed one of these in
> ^/sys/dev/terasic/mtl/terasic_mtl_syscons.c, which has the following
> note that shows my analysis to be not inaccurate but incorrect:
>=20
> /*
>  * XXXRW: For historical reasons, syscons can't register video consoles
>  * without a keyboard implementation.  Provide a dummy.
>  */
>=20
> As far as I can tell, this isn't the case anymore as sckbdprobe's
> return value is ignored and other references to the keyboard appear to
> be properly gated on sc->keyboard being valid.
>=20
> I only have a single machine that can run syscons, but I built a
> kernel with the same modifications to remove all of the keyboard
> drivers (-ukbd, kbdmux, hyperv) for that machine and encountered no
> problems in practice.
>=20
> I will proceed with removing the last dummy driver and MFC as scheduled.

That's fine.  I doubt anyone but us (CHERI) uses the Terasic MTL driver.

-- Brooks

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