Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:39:34 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel probe order issues Message-ID: <4B67C8A6.5050102@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20100202063635.GA64643@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20100201085131.GA34006@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4B66A0DD.2070109@icyb.net.ua> <20100202063635.GA64643@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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on 02/02/2010 08:36 Peter Jeremy said the following: > On 2010-Feb-01 11:37:33 +0200, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote: >>> This strikes me as undesirable. Is there some way to bump up the >>> probe/attach priority of console input devices to ensure that they >>> exist before the kernel tries to read input? >> It seems to be a problem with either your keyboard or your USB controller. >> USB keyboard can be discovered much earlier than mountroot if the hardware is >> ready. No magical software priority bump can help here. > > I've tried a couple of different USB ports (controllers) with no > change in behaviour. I'll try another keyboard if I can find one. It > _does_ work as expected on 7.x so this is a regression. Unfortunately you keep being low on hardware details. For me going from stable/7 to stable/8 resulted in an improvement of the opposite nature on two different systems: now my keyboard is detected before disks are detected, whereas previously it was detected some time later. -- Andriy Gapon
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