Re: Keyboard system and Giant

2006-10-11 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 08:53:33PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello; > > FWIW, anyone planning to work in the keyboard or mouse systems is warned to > look at the KII portions of KGI4BSD first. The main reference is the P4 > repository but there is some documentation here: > http://wik

Re: Keyboard system and Giant

2006-10-10 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
Hello; FWIW, anyone planning to work in the keyboard or mouse systems is warned to look at the KII portions of KGI4BSD first. The main reference is the P4 repository but there is some documentation here: http://wikitest.freebsd.org/KGI Nicholas has been able to run FreeBSD's console multihea

Keyboard system and Giant

2006-10-07 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
Hi, Does someone here have the overview over the keyboard system? I see that at least printf calls into the keyboard system without holding Giant, which did cause a panic in the new USB keyboard driver. This happens when the kernel prints text to the screen in text-mode, and printf wants to tu