Subject: Re: Anomalies in the 4/1 snapshot...
To: Data In~rte~vgri}ity EnginNO CARRIER <greywolf@autodesk.com>
From: Chris Torek <torek@BSDI.COM>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/09/1994 23:56:35
> I'm glad to see that it bypasses the per-character PROM console
> driver, whether by design (the PROM driver was undesired) or
> by acceptance (couldn't reach the PROM driver).
By design; the prom code is just too slow.
> (seeing as the "hostid" command and gethostid() call are not
> available/written yet, I am starting to more suspect the latter).
No, the host ID is obtained at boot and put in the `hostid' variable.
The gethostid and sethostid calls may have been converted to sysctls
in 4.4. I have no idea what NetBSD did with them. (Note that I
allow you to change the hostid any time you want....)
> - The keyboard driver is missing the key-repeat code (or is that
> in hardware somewhere?). I'm sure this will be fixed, too, but
> just FYI, as a sanity check (to make sure I still have some).
It must be done in software. But why bother? If you want decent
keyboard handling, run X :-)
Chris
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