Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:35:18 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: scottl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months Message-ID: <20041202043518.GA43045@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041201.205322.102612548.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org> <20041201.205322.102612548.imp@bsdimp.com>
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--W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 08:53:22PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org> > Scott Long <scottl@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. >=20 > 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 --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBrpuGWry0BWjoQKURAuYAAJ9lwD8anwsSb+1D8RIYOEU2NPBy1gCg3Ory KOvDfK7M5zVpopMwE5EUv1s= =EleZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA--
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