Re: Synced to 2.4.12

[Johann D. <jo...@Do...>]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, James Simmons wrote:

> 
> > Good news, it almost worked on my PC. But without smp :(
> 
> Ah. So it is a race condition on SMP. I don't have a SMP box so I haven't
> seen this problem. Do you see anything? 

No, I don't. The problem is that the source would not compile. Still the
same problem with global_irq_lock in bust_spinlocks.
What is global_irq_lock suppose to do, by the way ? To disable irqs on all
cpus ?

> 
> > By almost, I mean that the kernel booted, and X started. Unfortunately, my
> > PS2 keyboard refused to work.
> 
> Hm. Strange. It should of put the "keyboard" in raw mode. The codes sent
> then are the one in drivers/char/keyboard.c. I will have to test it with X
> windows.

It did not work for the console either. But that may just be me who
misconfigured the kernel. I read input.txt several times, but it seems to
focus on USB keyboards and mice. I therefore have some difficulties to
apply it to my "simple" PS2 keyboard. I understand there are a few changes
to do to have the mouse working (patch gpm, change XF86Config). Is there
anything similar to do with the keyboard ?

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Johann Deneux