From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 10 18: 3:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B48E637B855 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:03:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA02753; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:03:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003110203.SAA02753@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: Ryan Thompson , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0-20000307-CURRENT kern.flp keyboard probe questions In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 Mar 2000 11:03:44 +0900." <200003110203.LAA11344@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:03:39 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message