Re: Early keyboard initialization?

From: Giuseppe Bilotta
Date: Thu Oct 12 2006 - 03:44:21 EST


On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 21:58:54 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> It looks like the change will only work for non-USB input devices since
> USB subsystem is initialized much later.

Doesn't the BIOS handle USB keyboards someway? (To handle BIOS setup
and stuff like that)

If the BIOS emulates a non-USB keyboard, would it be possible to init
the fake one early and then give up control when the USB subsystem is
initialized?

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

"I'm never quite so stupid
as when I'm being smart" --Linus van Pelt

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