On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 11:47:40AM +0100, Stef van Os wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > The use case is that on many boards there is a BMC emulating a > keyboard/mouse device (the Aspeed AST2500 in our case). This device is > always on, and enumerated first. > > This meant that in our case we were never able to use both a "real" keyboard > to select the boot mode in SeaBIOS, and the network KVM via the Aspeed at > the same time. > > With this patch (and multiple keyboards configured in Kconfig) we do not > have this limitation anymore, and can use both the network KVM remote, as > well as a "real" keyboard on the device to select e.g. network boot or USB > install medium.
Okay, thanks. That makes sense. I agree with Daniel that it would be preferable to do this without a kconfig option. Perhaps put all of the keyboards in a linked list? (FYI, I don't see any reason to support multiple mice, as no one uses the old dos mouse interface anyway.) -Kevin _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list [email protected] https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
