I have re-issued the following patches for the drivers/char directory:
1. Mouse
The cleanup of busmice and mice protocols modelled on busmice.
2. Keyboard
Kernel-mode auto-repeat handling - allows autorepeat to be
usable if you've got a group of machines connected via a
keyboard switch box.
Keyboard autorepeat parameter setting currently not supported
(anyone want to supply a patch for this)?
3. Console
Some of the more minor changes that I made to the console code
when I ported Linux 2.0 to ARM to improve console speed. These
patches are not the whole story, more like one page of a large
book of changes. They should give a speed improvement over the
complete console.
Comparing console speeds by:
time cat /etc/termcap:
Original 2.1.108 console.c: 11.15 kB/s
Modified 2.1.108 console.c: 12.45 kB/s
Totally modified 2.0.34 console.c for ARM: 27.12 kB/s
There are other changes, but these affect all files relating
to console (vt.c, console.c, tty_io.c, tty_ioctl.c, selection.c
etc).
I will continue to merge my changes into the standard console
over time, trying to make it as painless as possible for the
patches to be applied/removed.
Note: if you wish to do a comparison between the patched console
and the original, keep a clean version of console.c. You can
then just switch this file between old and new & recompile to
compare the differences.
The patches are at:
ftp://ftp.arm.uk.linux.org/pub/armlinux/kernel-sources/
v2.1/char-2.1.108-1.tar.gz
The tar contains these 3 patches. Please try them out on your
particular architectures, and let me know how you get on with them.
Any changes that you need to make should be forwarded to me, along
with the reasons.
Looking forward to feedback.
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