On Tuesday 17 July 2001 11:49, you wrote:
> Drew Northup wrote:
> > Would you like me to re-write the keyboard support as a PCI/ISA modeled
> > plugin? This may be a good test item to play with since we know exactly
> > how it acts for all cases of inputs and outputs.
>
> Sure, as soon as one is defined, please do.
>
> Also, in the keyboard dimension, I know the bochs folks did some work
> on this, including adding international keyboard support. As part
> of a new PCI spec, it would be nice to work towards a sharing of the
> IO device emulation with bochs (if the current developers agree).
>
> Since you are now the plex86 keyboard guy :^) can you give
> me an idea what is best to do. Should we start with the bochs
> keyboard code or plex86 + international patches?
>
> -Kevin
Are you all sure this is a good idea? PCI cards are typically high-volume
items (graphics cards, SCSI adapters, LAN cards and such). The mouse and
keyboard are almost never on the PCI bus (though you can get USB versions).
Why not start with something reasonably simple, well known and supported
under Windows (probably the most desired guest OS)? For graphics that would
be probably an S3, but an NE2000 would be simpler and also useful...
Just my 2c worth...
Colin
