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Date:      Sun, 15 Dec 1996 09:49:28 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/rawboot Makefile 
Message-ID:  <199612150149.JAA18365@spinner.DIALix.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Dec 1996 18:42:20 MST." <199612150142.SAA26642@rocky.mt.sri.com> 

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Nate Williams wrote:
> Peter Wemm writes:
> > peter       96/12/14 17:25:55
> > 
> >   Modified:    sys/i386/boot/rawboot  Makefile
> >   Log:
> >   Add missing -I so that probe_keyboard.c can find <i386/isa/kbdio.h>. :-(
> >   (Why, oh why did this include file end up in isa/ rather than include/ ?)
> 
> Because it's supposed to be only used by isa drivers. ;)
> 
> Nate

.. and it wouldn't need to be used if the keyboard IO port definitions
were not ripped out of <machine/cons.h>.  The boot code needs to know the
port addresses.  Those should have stayed in cons.h, the prototypes in kbdio.h
are only useful to users of kbdio.c (probe_keyboard doesn't use kbdio.c).

Cheers,
-Peter



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