Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 14:29:30 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs-src summary for 04/04/2004 Message-ID: <200404061429.30921.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200404042340.07923.mjohnston@skyweb.ca> References: <200404042340.07923.mjohnston@skyweb.ca>
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On Monday 05 April 2004 12:40 am, Mark Johnston wrote: > FreeBSD cvs-src summary for 28/03/04 to 04/04/04 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This is a regular weekly summary of FreeBSD's cutting-edge development. > It is intended to help the FreeBSD community keep up with the fast-paced > work going on in FreeBSD-CURRENT by distilling the deluge of data from > the CVS mailing list into a (hopefully) easy-to-read newsletter. This > newsletter is marked up in reStructuredText_, so any odd punctuation > that you see is likely intended for the reST parser. > > . _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html > > You can get old summaries, and an HTML version of this one, at > http://www.xl0.org/FreeBSD/. Please send any comments to Mark Johnston > (mark at xl0.org). > > For Lukasz Dudek and Szymon Roczniak's Polish translations of these > summaries, which may lag the English ones slightly, please see > http://mocart.pinco.pl/FreeBSD/. > > . contents:: > > ============ > New features > ============ > Ezm3 imported into base system > ------------------------------ > Maxime Henrion (mux) imported John Polstra (jdp)'s Ezm3_ Modula-3 compiler > into the base system. Ezm3 is a stripped-down version of Modula-3, > containing only the code necessary to compile and run CVSup_. This will > make it easier for people to build CVSup from source when needed. > > . _Ezm3: http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/ezm3/ > . _CVSup: http://www.cvsup.org/ > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040401183758.GC44790 This was an April Fool's joke. :) > PS2 vs. USB keyboards at boot time > ---------------------------------- > Alfred Perlstein (alfred) committed a change to the GENERIC kernel > configuration file so that PS2 keyboards can be plugged in and work after > bootup. However, this same change means that USB keyboards will not be > found by default. Peter Wemm (peter) replied and pointed out that the > change breaks USB keyboards; Alfred responded that turning on a flag would > make them work again. John Baldwin also replied, asking Alfred to revert > the change, since it had not been adequately reviewed. Alfred argued that > the change had been discussed a long time ago, and that the consensus was > that PS2 keyboard hot swapping was more important. Scott Long (scottl) > asked Alfred to revert the change in -STABLE since the 4.10 release is > coming soon, which he did. This is somewhat misleading in that the consensus was _not_ that PS2 keyboard hot swapping was more important than USB keyboard support, neither in the past nor now. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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