From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 16 17:24:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA11504 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 17:24:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA11495 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 17:24:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id RAA13218; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 17:23:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 17:23:55 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: Michael Smith cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: boot messages (Was: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC?) In-Reply-To: <199702162320.JAA05708@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > The splash-screen is actually implemented as an alternate display mode for > a single VT. But you're not paying attention : it is NOT POSSIBLE to > detect keystrokes on the console while the device probes are running, > because interrupts are Turned Off. this may sound like a stupid question.. but can you check the keyboard between probes to see if there are any keypresses.... I remeber here a post a few days ago saying the keyboard control had a 16byte buffer.. so the keypress would still be around wouldn't it? it just needs to get pulled... just a thought... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)