From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 6 11:39:14 2004 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 A276016A4D1 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:39:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.speakeasy.net (mail1.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7800843D58 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:39:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 13758 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2004 18:37:24 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 6 Apr 2004 18:37:24 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.205 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i36IbCNH007435; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 14:37:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 14:29:30 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <200404042340.07923.mjohnston@skyweb.ca> In-Reply-To: <200404042340.07923.mjohnston@skyweb.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404061429.30921.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: Mark Johnston cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs-src summary for 04/04/2004 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:39:14 -0000 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org