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Subject: Re: 4.0-20000307-CURRENT kern.flp keyboard probe questions 
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From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@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(

I wasn't talking about specific implementation which should be in
FreeBSD.  But, the general technological trend the world is following :-)

Kazu


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