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SubjectRe: i8042 access timings
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:14:36PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Myths are not really involved here. The IBM PC hardware specifications
> are fairly well defined and the various bits of "we glued a 2Mhz part
> onto the bus" stuff is all well documented. Nowdays its more complex
> because most kbc's aren't standalone low end microcontrollers but are
> chipset integrated cells or even software SMM emulations.
>
> The real test is to fish out something like an old Digital Hi-note
> laptop or an early 486 board with seperate kbc and try it.

I have a Digital HiNote collecting dust which had this keyboard problem
with the RH 6.x 2.2.x boot disk kernels, IIRC. I can test if you like,
but I won't be able to get to it until the weekend.

Bill Rugolsky
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