Re: Keyboard lockup with NetBSD5

[Frank Wille <frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost>]

Alexander Coers wrote:

>>> Okay, this one seems to work! I typed an entire screen full of
>>> characters without problems.
>>
>> Great! We got it. A 16 years old bug... :P
>
> No, sorry.
> The bug is still here.

*Sigh*
Then I'm running out of ideas... :|


> kbd/ports                                    115257      247

Possibly the keyboard is causing the high interrupt rate, when sending lots
of buffer-overflow and out-of-sync codes.


> The timing seems to be really messed up, because with the log output  
> the bug disappeared.

That's really strange. I don't see why timing should be critical at all. And
I wonder why writing a log-message shows more effect than a 2000us delay?

There is something really wrong. But not necessarily in the keyboard
interrupt handler.

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