Hi, Keith Keith Owens writes: > Sebastien Lelarge did a patch for USB keyboard support in kdb, to > support IA64 machines made by Bull. AFAICT nobody has managed to get > this code to work, including the USB maintainer. The USB code in kdb > for 2.5 kernels is a straight copy of the 2.4 code and will not even > compile, I have asked for updates to make it work on 2.5 with no > response. > > Has anybody got USB keyboard support to work on 2.4 kernels? >
It works OK on 2.4.19 ia64. > If it works on 2.4, will anybody make USB support work in kdb for 2.5 > kernels? i386 only will do, kdb for ia64 is waiting for a current ia64 > 2.5 patch from David Mosberger (away at the moment). > It should not be a big problem to have it working on 2.5 ia64. > Without evidence that this feature works and support for 2.5 kernels, > USB keyboard support will be removed from kdb. I will wait until > November 12 before deciding. The Tiger machines have no PS2 keyboard, and even if we can use a serial console to debug, it is interesting to have kdb working on USB. -- Sinc�res salutations. _____________________________________________________________________ Xavier BRU BULL ISD/R&D/INTEL office: FREC B1-422 tel : +33 (0)4 76 29 77 45 http://www-frec.bull.fr fax : +33 (0)4 76 29 77 70 mailto:Xavier.Bru@;bull.net addr: BULL, 1 rue de Provence, BP 208, 38432 Echirolles Cedex, FRANCE _____________________________________________________________________
