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Date:      Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:03:53 +0200
From:      Antoine Brodin <antoine@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r197330 - in head: sys/dev/kbd sys/sys  usr.sbin/kbdcontrol
Message-ID:  <f19c444a0909221403o41f59980x62215da0242343af@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200909191756.n8JHuQCq031719@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <200909191756.n8JHuQCq031719@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Ed Schouten <ed@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: ed
> Date: Sat Sep 19 17:56:26 2009
> New Revision: 197330
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/197330
>
> Log:
> =A0Make the keyboard layer Unicode aware.
>
> =A0Just take keyent_t to use an u_int to store the Unicode codepoints.
> =A0Unfortunately the keymap is now too big to be loaded using an ioctl
> =A0argument, so change the ioctl to pick a pointer.
>
> =A0This change breaks kbdcontrol ABI. It doesn't break X11, because X11
> =A0doesn't do anything with syscons keymaps. It just switches the device
> =A0out of K_XLATE.

Hi,

Could you add a note to UPDATING?  Using a new kernel with an old
world is a bit surprising during login if you don't expect a qwerty
keyboard...

Thanks

Antoine



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