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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:03:39 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
Cc:        Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.0-20000307-CURRENT kern.flp keyboard probe questions 
Message-ID:  <200003110203.SAA02753@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Mar 2000 11:03:44 %2B0900." <200003110203.LAA11344@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> 

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> It's indeed inconvenient that you cannot safely hot-plug the keyboard.
> And the world is heading for the USB standard... :-)

This actually opens another entire can of worms; detecting a USB keyboard 
at the bootstrap level is _not_ easy.  It looks like at least some 
systems aren't setting the 'extended keyboard' flag. 8(

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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