On 05-May-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Ceri Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010505 11:59] wrote:
>> On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:54:18PM +0200, Ingo Flaschberger wrote:
>> > > Note : this is a way to kill your keyboard : an AT keyboard is not
>> > > hot-plug compatible
>> >
>> > i have never killed a keyboard with un / plugging.
>> > at linux it works.
>> Well, it works, until your keyboard does actually break :)
>
> It can actually fry the entire motherboard. I doubt linux can
> prevent that.
>
> FreeBSD 4.3 allows hotswap again.
It never disallowed it, it is simply a flag for the atkbd(4) driver. You can
always tweak it by turning off flag 0x1 on the atkbd0 device via a custom
kernel or using a userconfig script. However, by default keyboards are
actually probed and not assumed present on 4.3, so hotplug of a keyboard if the
keyboard was not plugged in in 4.3 will not work out of the box. Note that
hotplug of USB will work. A real fix would be to have the atkbdc0 driver
attach a atkbd0 device in the case that a keyboard interrupt comes in (i.e. on
the first keypress after plugging in the keyboard).
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