Ok, I've been working on trying to build a release that can be
installed onto machines that have USB keyboards as well as other
USB foo. My current patch to src/ for this is at
http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/usb.release.patch. You can
use it to build a release via
'make release LOCAL_PATCHES=usb.release.patch'. A release of
-current made with this patch can be found at
ftp://ftp.Baldwin.cx/pub/FreeBSD/5.0-BALDWIN_CX-USB-20000330/
1) The kernel userconfig does not work with a USB keyboard. The
result is that we can't put INTRO_USERCONFIG into the install
floppy. Since we want this for installation whenever we can
this means that we will have to have a seperate USB kern.flp
until userconfig is moved out to the loader where it arguably
belongs.
2) Right now the GENERIC kernel doesn't have the atkbd0 device
in it, so it won't work on a system with just an AT keyboard.
For a workaround, I'm thinking of adding kbdcontrol to the
install floppy, and adding an entry into /etc/usbd.conf for
ukbd0 that runs kbdcontrol to change the default keyboard to
the first USB keyboard. Thus, on a system with both an AT
and a USB keyboard, the USB keyboard would be used, and on a
system with either the working one would be used. I'll be
working on this later on this evening and then try to roll
another release. However, this would require a change to
/usr/src/etc/usbd.conf if that is ok with everyone.
Comments?
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