Re: odd PS/2 keyboard fail

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:48:54AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> Today I tried 4.0.1 on this hardware.  To my surprise, the keyboard in
> the PS/2 keyboard port simply does not work past the point of the
> bootloader handing control over to the kernel, though it works fine up
> to that point.  (The symptom is that keystrokes are ignored; for all I

There are several bug reports with rather similar symptoms.

Just to list few of these:

http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=19684
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=41066
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=30867
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=40534
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=40687
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=41272
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=41606

Also see Skorobogatko Oleksiy's problems reported earlier on this list:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2010/04/10/msg001915.html

Appear to be interrupt-related.

> Surely this is not expected behaviour.  Does anyone but me care?

Surely people care that a keyboard in a computer works.

- Jukka.