svn commit: r278249 - head/etc/rc.d

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday, February 05, 2015 10:49:45 PM Ed Maste wrote:
> On 5 February 2015 at 18:32, NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I guess I was just propagating around the original assumption that
> > using moused is tied to just syscons(4). You and emaste are right
> > though -- these tools should build and install when MK_LEGACY_CONSOLE
> > != no || MK_VT != no (or invent a different build knob to make the
> > intent of the tools clearer instead of copy-pasting that pattern
> > around the tree).
> 
> We already have a knob to control these tools -- LEGACY_CONSOLE.  The
> three related console knobs are:
> 
> LEGACY_CONSOLE - kbdcontrol, moused, etc. which support both
> syscons(4) and vt(4)
> SYSCONS - key maps, fonts, etc. for syscons(4)
> VT - key maps, fonts, etc. for vt(4)
> 
> LEGACY_CONSOLE may be poorly named, but just adding || MK_VT != no
> isn't correct. Eliminating it, and using MK_SYSCONS != no || MK_VT !=
> no might be.

Using "legacy" for the brand new console driver we haven't even shipped as on-
by-default in a release yet certainly seems a misnomer.  Perhaps you mean 
something like VIDCONSOLE (to borrow loader's name), VIDEO_CONSOLE, or
GRAPHICS_CONSOLE?

-- 
John Baldwin