>From the keyboard of Charles M. Hannum:

> I used to use `delay(6)' in pccons, because that's what someone
> recommended, and it seemed to fix the problem of the keyboard always
> hanging on boot on Gateway machines.

Same for pcvt, the delay(6) was added because someone found out that this
reproducably fixed his problems with a Gateway 2000 machine/keyboard.

> However, delay() isn't really accurate for values that small.  I'd
> suggest instead changing it to something like pccons now uses:
> 
> #define	KBD_DELAY \
> 	{ u_char x = inb(0x84); } \
> 	{ u_char x = inb(0x84); } \
> 	{ u_char x = inb(0x84); } \
> 	{ u_char x = inb(0x84); }
> 
> If the 7us timing requirement is correct, then you may need as many as
> 6 inb()s.

Charles, what about 200 MHz clocked pentiums ? :-(

Is the time inb's from port 0x84 last constant by design/agreement/hardware ?

If not, is there a way or an idea how to get processor/speed independent
delays of such small values ?

hellmuth
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