Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 08:49:24 +0100 (MET) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, sos@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New PS/2 mouse driver stalled Message-ID: <199611110749.IAA16459@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199611101625.JAA16541@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Nov 10, 96 09:25:26 am
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In reply to Nate Williams who wrote:
>
> I have read the comments on the new syscons|ps/2 mouse driver bugs, but
> looking at Bruce's comments regarding the new syscons 'polling' behavior
> it looks like it wouldn't matter since it really requires a new 'combo'
> driver that differentiates between keyboard interrupts and mouse
> interrupts, which has been the 'goal' for a long time with no
> resolution.
Sigh, I've wanted to do a merge for a long time. I'm currently struggeling
with taring syscons apart into smaller more generic pieces, some
of wich can be optional. It should have been in 2.2 but now its a candidate
for 3.0 :(. My plans for this does include the ps/2 mouse interface, so
I havn't forgotten....
> I believe the new driver is 'better' than the old driver, but I don't
> believe it will work any better with the syscons changes that folks are
> complaining about.
>
> The author of the new driver would like to work on it more, and has even
> provided a man-page but none of this matters until we get the
> syscons/mouse interaction resolved. I agree that syscons is within it's
> rights to poll the keyboard, but it means that the PS/2 driver will not
> work if I read Bruce's notes correctly.
After trying out a patch to clock.c that a Japanese guy sent us in
a pr to fix the hanging keyboard, we _might_ have an alternative to
a polling syscons (I don't like polling at any rate), I just fail
to understand how the fix should cure the problem, bruce ??
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So much code to hack -- so little time.
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