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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 1999 07:49:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, Freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Nick Hibma <hibma@skylink.it>
Subject:   Re: USB keyboard attach function?
Message-ID:  <199904221149.HAA25805@jabberwock.rstcorp.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990422134627.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <199904220404.VAA07662@rah.star-gate.com> <XFMail.990422134627.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes:

 Daniel> On 22-Apr-99 Amancio Hasty wrote:
 >> The problem was not really a bios problem not sure what the guys
 >> did to fix the boot loader probably switch to using a dos int function
 >> to access the keyboard from the boot loader.

 Daniel> Hmm.. what does it do now? Just talk to the keyboard
 Daniel> controller directly? The BIOS I have here have an option
 Daniel> 'Port 60/64 emulation' in the USB related section...

From looking thru the commits over the past day, nothing that could
have changed the keyboard code that early seems to have gone in. 
Nevertheless, as Amancio said, my USB keyboard suddenly started being
seen by the FreeBSD boot manager and loader.
[I had my BIOS option set to "USB keyboard support: BIOS"  all the
time] 
*shrug* Serendipity Rules.

Viren
-- 
Viren Shah                    | "You can't trust code that you did not totally
Research Associate, RST Inc.  | create yourself. (Especially code from 
viren@rstcorp.com             | companies that employ people like me.)"
http://www.rstcorp.com/~vshah | - Ken Thompson "Reflections on Trusting Trust"


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