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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys conf.h
To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 00:45:57 -0700 (PDT)
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In reply to Rodney W. Grimes who wrote:
> 
> > 
> > [ PCVT and SYSCONS both enabled in GENERIC ]
> > > 
> > > I dunno..  GENERIC is getting pretty *big*, and now the commercial
> > > database folks are saying that they need ALL the SYSV* options enabled
> > > too.  Yeeks!
> > 
> > IMHO, there will be more ThinkPad owners who will use FreeBSD than folks
> > who buy commercial databases, but I'm an obviously biased individual. ;)
> > 
> > Laptops are becoming more and more common, and IBM still is the #1
> > supplier, though unfortunately still uses the brain-dead keyboard
> > controller which doesn't work with sycons.
> 
> I would not call the PS/2 keyboard controller, aka the type 2 keyboard
> controller.  IBM fixed several bugs in this design for the MCA class
> machines, the detection (Gilluwe page 274 is simple) and differences
> (same, page 273) to work these controllers is _trivial_, Terry Lambert
> has said it a dozen times, and now I am going to say it, syscons is
> plain broken if it does not detect and deal with this trivial delta.
> 
> It is all of 18 lines of assembler :-).  I'll fax the two pages to
> any one in the world who _PROMISES_ to fix the code in syscons to
> deal with this.

Hmm, does the 18 lines of assembler include the translation nessesary
for X to work also ?? If so fax me the pages !

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