Subject: Re: pckbd on O2
To: None <rumble@ephemeral.org>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 04/09/2007 17:41:55
On 9-Apr-07, at 4:59 PM, Stephen M. Rumble wrote:

> Quoting "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca>:
>
>> Heyas folks --
>>
>> Anyone tried a pckbd on an SGI O2? I see pckbc attach, but neither
>> pckbd nor pms attach afterwords.
>
> If anyone has, it'd be SEKIYA-san, but I wouldn't assume that it  
> should work. Even in sgimips/sgimips/console.c there's the  
> interesting line:
>
>     panic("ip32 supports serial console only.  sorry.");
>
> I don't know what makes IP32 special such that ARCS won't function  
> as console, but it seems to indicate that you're treading on new  
> ground. Feel free to make it (and the framebuffer!) go, however ;)

I have an SGI-CRM framebuffer driver working on my O2, but I can't  
test the vcons pieces of it without a working keyboard! :)

Cheers,
Jared