Subject: Re: kern/32266: deadlocks with 3.99.13/i386
To: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@lists.veego.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/08/2005 19:05:43
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 07:32:13AM -0500, Sean Davis wrote:
[..]
> Will this work with a USB keyboard? I remember reading about issues with ddb
> and USB keyboards, and haven't looked to see if they've been solved (forgot
> the PR #)

From earlier this week:
: Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:25:29 +0100 
: From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
: Subject: Re: can't get into debugger with usb only Dell GX620
: To: Tracy Di Marco White <netbsd@gendalia.org>
: CC: current-users@NetBSD.org
: 
: The problem is that the PS/2 keyboard driver is broken.
: As soon as you kernel has pckbc configured the driver
: will attach without verifying that there actually is
: a PS/2 controller there.  And it will become the console
: keyboard.
: 
: If you create a custom kernel without pckbd and pckbc
: then the usb keyboard gets a chance and it will become
: console. 

Bernd