Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:34:31 -0500 | From | "Bill Rugolsky Jr." <> | Subject | Re: i8042 access timings |
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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.
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