Subject: Re: Getting ready to branch for 4.0
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/01/2006 15:20:55
In article <67BE9A90-DA0D-41CE-BD85-B8CD57D4BEEA@dtcc.edu>,
Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu> wrote:
>
>Can I add kern/28582 to the list?
>
>Basically on machines that don't have PS/2 ports, you can't debug
>without disabling pckbc and pckbd in userconf, or building your own
>kernel with them removed because pckbd always attaches as console
>even when there are no physical PS/2 ports due to legacy emulation
>which cannot be turned off.
>
>But, building a kernel without pckbd/pckbc means you can't use the
>BIOS emulation to debug post boot before the USB controllers get set
>up, before ukbd gets attached, or get to userconf.
I don't think that this is going to be fixed for 4.0...
christos