Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 11:17:54 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: charnier@lirmm.fr (Philippe Charnier) Subject: Re: Keyboard reset failed Message-ID: <199605160917.LAA00480@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199605150632.IAA01809@lirmm.lirmm.fr> from Philippe Charnier at "May 15, 96 08:32:55 am"
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As Philippe Charnier wrote: > I got this message at boot since the last commit to syscons. I tried to > increase the number of tries to 20 (default is 10) but no luck. The returned > val is 0xfa (aka KB_ACK). Should this failure be hidden when option > KEYBOARD_RESET_BROKEN (if I remember the correct name) is defined in the > kernel? Err, major confusion. :) BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET means the *system* cannot be reset through the keyboard controller, so the ``CPU shutdown'' (wipe all page tables, and flush the TLB) must be used to force a CPU reset. ``Keyboard reset failed'' means that your keyboard didn't response with a ``reset done'' message to the ``reset keyboard'' command during scprobe(). This is basically benign. It's arguable that the entire keyboard reset can be omitted from the console drivers. If there's a keyboard present, it has already been initialized by the BIOS, and it's usable for us. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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