My project wish-list for the next 12 months

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 08:53:22PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <41AE3F80.1000506 at freebsd.org>
>             Scott Long <scottl at freebsd.org> writes:
> : 1.  Keyboard multiplexer.  We are running into problems with making
> : ps/2 and USB/bluetooth keyboards work together and work with KVMs.
> : Having a virtual keyboard device that multiplexes the various real
> : keyboard devices and handles hotplug can solve this mess pretty
> : effectively.  I know that there has been a lot of talk about this on
> : mailing lists recently but I don't know how much progress is being made
> : so I'm listing it here.
> 
> There aready are multiplexers in the kernel.  The problem is that we
> need a many to one mux that is the OR of all the ones installed.  We
> can current set WHICH keyboard is connected to the mux, but can't say
> 'ALL OF THEM' at all.  I believe that Brooks Davis has said he's
> working on this.

Yeah, we need the ability for multiple cats to simultaneously send
foot-related garbage to the console :)

Kris
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