kernel debugger and usb keyboard

[Alexander Best]

oh right. i forgot freebsd != x86. ;)

alex

Marcel Moolenaar schrieb am 2009-07-16:

> On Jul 16, 2009, at 1:43 AM, Alexander Best wrote:
> >modern bioses support an option called legcy usb keyboard support.
> >the way i
> >understood it is that the bios grabs usb keyboard events and uses
> >them to
> >emulate an AT keyboard. that way e.g. a bootloader can the used
> >with a usb
> >keyboard although there's no usb stack or whatever in the
> >bootloader.

> >when the kernel boots the usb stack takes control over the usb
> >keyboard and
> >the bios keyboard legacy support gets disabled. couldn't we revert
> >to this
> >stage after a panic occurs? letting the bios take control over the
> >usb
> >keyboard again and emulate an AT keyboard?

> This obviously doesn't apply to hardware that isn't PC hardware.
> The USB stack is generic code and you cannot assume some PC BIOS
> is there to handle things.

> FYI,

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