My project wish-list for the next 12 months
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Thu Dec 2 22:13:59 PST 2004
Scott Long wrote:
> Robert Huff wrote:
>
>> Marcel Moolenaar writes:
>>
>>
>>> > 1. Keyboard multiplexer.
>>>
>>> I actually fail to stop thinking about a complete syscons and
>>> pcvt replacement. You know, the one and only console
>>> implementation that makes all others obsolete. Big plans, little
>>> time, yada yada yada...
>>
>>
>>
>> As long as we're talking about keyboards ... may I add "Get the
>> boot code to recognize USB keyboards."
>> (Unless this has already happened and I missed the meno.
>> Again.)
>>
>>
>> Robert Huff
>>
>
> Are you talking about putting a minimal USB stack into the boot loader?
> That _certainly_ cannot fit into boot0, and I doubt that it can fit into
> boot1. It might be possible for boot2/BTX/loader, but that's also quite
> a bit of work. I take it that your BIOS does not provide keyboard
> emulation for you? If not, I guess that it makes it difficult to boot
> to DOS.
that's what "Legacy USB support" is in the BIOS.
>
> Scott
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