Subject: Re: Abstracting pckbc(4)
To: None <apb@cequrux.com>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/02/2004 12:44:10
In article <20040202075457.GC589@apb.cequrux.com> you write:
>On Mon, 02 Feb 2004, Ben Harris wrote:
>> >You didn't mention support for hot pluggable keyboards and mice.
>> 
>> Does it work at the moment with pckbc?
>
>Not properly.  At least in NetBSD/i386, there's some sort of magic
>fakery for the keyboard, such that even if the keyboard is not plugged
>in at boot time, the "pckbd at pckbc" device node gets attached anyway.

That's a hack in pckbd(4), and I plan to leave it there, so this feature
will work as well as ever.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@NetBSD.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/acorn26           <URL:http://www.NetBSD.org/Ports/acorn26/>