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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] usbohci in pccpuf
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:28:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6c1b1bb4c733e3d9fe00375edb1cebf9@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d375e920806100825w3bbdbfa6h58dd1252c428cd83@mail.gmail.com>

> There is no support for usb keyboards.

wrong.

> Well, nemo implemented it some billions of years ago, and the code is
> bittrotting somewhere in sources (which incidentally is down, as
> usual).

works for me.  are you sure this isn't a local connectivity problem?

> So, lets just pretend usb keyboards don't exist (or that all
> bioses support the 'emulate ancient keyboards' switch and will do so
> for the rest of eternity).

the problem with this is that usb legacy emulation uses system mgmt
mode.  you might not care that bios takes over your system for 100ms
at a time while translating usb into keyboard, but this happens to be a problem
for us.

- erik




  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-10 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-09 17:55 lejatorn
2008-06-09 17:56 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-10  8:36   ` lejatorn
2008-06-10 14:17     ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-10 15:15       ` lejatorn
2008-06-10 15:25         ` Uriel
2008-06-10 15:28           ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2008-06-10 15:48             ` sqweek
2008-06-10 15:41           ` sqweek
2008-06-10 15:52             ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-10 15:27         ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-10 21:30           ` lejatorn
2008-06-10 15:39 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2008-06-10 15:48 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-06-11  0:51   ` David Leimbach

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