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On Mon, 11 Dec 2017, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:

> I think this name might confuse people looking for "syscons". Can it be 
> renamed? Also, if it is ARM-specific, maybe it belongs in sys/arm?

The wouldn't find it since it is not in any man page, GENERIC, or even
in NOTES.  It is not as bad as some drivers like drm2 that are also not
in conf/files* so they are not puttable in GENERIC or NOTES or even in
the user's config file.

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Bruce