Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:39:27 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CFR: Hardware notes update for Alpha architecture Message-ID: <XFMail.011119123927.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011119200819.A4381@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On 19-Nov-01 Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 08:51:02AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> On 18-Nov-01 Wilko Bulte wrote: >> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:49:42AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: >> >> USB Zip should probably work >> >> (Removed for now. Once someone tests it, we can put it back.) >> >> USB keyboards and mice work >> > >> > USB keyb/mice assume a system that has an SRM console that knows about USB >> > and >> > allows their use as console devices. That implies non-DEC/CPQ systems, >> > so I guess API systems-only. >> > >> > Can someone please clarify? >> >> Err, they work with the kernel perfectly fine on the XP900 I tested them >> with. >> SRM may not grok them, but the kernel does. > > Sure.. but how are you going to tell (say) SRM 'boot' with a USB > keyboard then? Does that work? Or do you have a serial console for the > SRM and an USB kb for the kernel? > > When I say console in this context I meant the SRM. They are still usable for now however. I thought your last sentence was implying that USB keyboards/mice only worked on API systems. In the systems I tested with, I basically had two keyboards. :) Your first sentence above is fine for keyboards (SRM doesn't use mice, so doesn't care), but the second one can be ambiguous. :) > Wilko -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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