Re: question about ruby's keyboard.c & keybdev.c

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 09:21:49AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 05:59:24PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 08:45:57AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > Well, in the case of the IBM Spruce (one of the two PPC embedded boards
> > > that changes things) has an Intel 82C42PC (S82C42C) to control the
> > > keyboard/mouse.  I'm not quite sure how that relates to i8042 however..
> > 
> > It's the chip, yes. i82c42pc is just a later version of the i8042 ...
> 
> Okay, that's good.  Will the current code remove the need for what
> spruce_read_keyb_{data,status} (arch/ppc/platforms/spruce_setup.c) or
> allow for overides like it is now?

Wow, the chip must be connected in some pretty non-simple way then.
You'll most likely need a separate driver for spruce there.

By the way, is there a way to *write* to the keyboard controller on that
machine?

> > > (which have a SuperIO) but not on others, and I'd like to avoid turning
> > > on (or asking about) CONFIG_ISA on machines which have a SuperIO but no
> > > ISA slots.
> > 
> > Ok. Let's then say that CONFIG_ISA is only for ISA *slots* and then we
> > won't require it for hardware only found on mainboards (superio, etc).
> 
> Sounds good to me..

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs