svn commit: r197330 - in head: sys/dev/kbd sys/sys usr.sbin/kbdcontrol

[Antoine Brodin]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Ed Schouten <ed at 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:
>  Make the keyboard layer Unicode aware.
>
>  Just take keyent_t to use an u_int to store the Unicode codepoints.
>  Unfortunately the keymap is now too big to be loaded using an ioctl
>  argument, so change the ioctl to pick a pointer.
>
>  This change breaks kbdcontrol ABI. It doesn't break X11, because X11
>  doesn't do anything with syscons keymaps. It just switches the device
>  out 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