Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 22:11:55 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CFR: Hardware notes update for Alpha architecture Message-ID: <20011119221155.B5234@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011119123927.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:39:27PM -0800 References: <20011119200819.A4381@freebie.xs4all.nl> <XFMail.011119123927.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:39:27PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > > 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 No, just that for SRM to work a PS/2 kb is needed. > 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. :) OK, agreed :) -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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