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

[Tom R. <tr...@ke...>]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 06:33:37PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> 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?

Oh, and as Franz just pointed out to me on IRC, writing it much simpiler
(in arch/ppc/platforms/spruce.h) :)

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