Re: i8042 access timings

From: Vojtech Pavlik
Date: Thu Jan 27 2005 - 11:44:19 EST


On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:34:31AM -0500, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:14:36PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Myths are not really involved here. The IBM PC hardware specifications
> > are fairly well defined and the various bits of "we glued a 2Mhz part
> > onto the bus" stuff is all well documented. Nowdays its more complex
> > because most kbc's aren't standalone low end microcontrollers but are
> > chipset integrated cells or even software SMM emulations.
> >
> > The real test is to fish out something like an old Digital Hi-note
> > laptop or an early 486 board with seperate kbc and try it.
>
> I have a Digital HiNote collecting dust which had this keyboard problem
> with the RH 6.x 2.2.x boot disk kernels, IIRC. I can test if you like,
> but I won't be able to get to it until the weekend.

That'd be very nice indeed.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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