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Date:      Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:39:34 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel probe order issues
Message-ID:  <4B67C8A6.5050102@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20100202063635.GA64643@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <20100201085131.GA34006@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4B66A0DD.2070109@icyb.net.ua> <20100202063635.GA64643@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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on 02/02/2010 08:36 Peter Jeremy said the following:
> On 2010-Feb-01 11:37:33 +0200, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote:
>>> This strikes me as undesirable.  Is there some way to bump up the
>>> probe/attach priority of console input devices to ensure that they
>>> exist before the kernel tries to read input?
>> It seems to be a problem with either your keyboard or your USB controller.
>> USB keyboard can be discovered much earlier than mountroot if the hardware is
>> ready.  No magical software priority bump can help here.
> 
> I've tried a couple of different USB ports (controllers) with no
> change in behaviour.  I'll try another keyboard if I can find one.  It
> _does_ work as expected on 7.x so this is a regression.

Unfortunately you keep being low on hardware details.
For me going from stable/7 to stable/8 resulted in an improvement of the
opposite nature on two different systems: now my keyboard is detected before
disks are detected, whereas previously it was detected some time later.


-- 
Andriy Gapon



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