Subject: Re: pckbd on O2
To: None <port-sgimips@NetBSD.org>
From: Steve Rikli <sr@genyosha.net>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 04/09/2007 14:49:55
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 05:41:55PM -0400, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> 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! :)

O2 aren't ps/2 enough to use an older keyboard/mouse ?

I swear I had an O2 and PC sharing a kvm switcher at one point,
but that admittedly would have been a while ago.

cheers,
sr.