Hi, Keith
Keith Owens writes:
> Sebastien Lelarge did a patch for USB keyboard support in kdb, to
> support IA64 machines made by Bull. AFAICT nobody has managed to get
> this code to work, including the USB maintainer. The USB code in kdb
> for 2.5 kernels is a straight copy of the 2.4 code and will not even
> compile, I have asked for updates to make it work on 2.5 with no
> response.
>
> Has anybody got USB keyboard support to work on 2.4 kernels?
>
It works OK on 2.4.19 ia64.
> If it works on 2.4, will anybody make USB support work in kdb for 2.5
> kernels? i386 only will do, kdb for ia64 is waiting for a current ia64
> 2.5 patch from David Mosberger (away at the moment).
>
It should not be a big problem to have it working on 2.5 ia64.
> Without evidence that this feature works and support for 2.5 kernels,
> USB keyboard support will be removed from kdb. I will wait until
> November 12 before deciding.
The Tiger machines have no PS2 keyboard, and even if we can use a
serial console to debug, it is interesting to have kdb working on USB.
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Sincères salutations.
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