Subject: Re: ps2 mouse in GENERIC kernel.
To: None <rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/27/1998 11:00:03
On 27 Jul 1998 13:03:48 -0400 
 rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu wrote:

 > I would like to reenable pms support for GENERIC (perhaps in time for
 > this new snapshot) because:
 > 	1. It is believed to work now.
 > 	2. If the mouse has some problems, they need to be fixed since
 > 	   this mouse is so common.
 > 	3. A generic kernel gets installed as part of sysinst and it
 > 	   is silly to install X and not full mouse support.  (You can
 > 	   not use X w/o a mouse.

I think this is OK, yes.

Can we make sure the wscons ps/2 driver is safe, too?  Eventually, we're
going to be switching to that completely.

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