Subject: Re: Macekbc and no keyboard
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 04/14/2007 09:14:00
On 14-Apr-07, at 7:07 AM, Martin Husemann wrote:

> Hi Jared,
>
> the macekbc apparently does not like booting w/o a keyboard or mouce
> plugged in - this prevents GENERIC3x kernels booting with serial  
> console.
>
> (It just hangs in a tight loop, probably the mackbc interrupt  
> handler - haven't
> had time to dig deeper)

The interrupt handler shouldn't be running so early... I have a  
feeling that it's the pckbport code calling macekbc_poll_data1 over  
and over again. Maybe macekbc_wait is a little too aggressive in how  
long it waits? Does it eventually boot at all if you leave it long  
enough?

Cheers,
Jared