usb keyboard detected after mountroot

Andriy Gapon avg at icyb.net.ua
Thu May 28 15:23:47 UTC 2009


on 28/05/2009 07:52 Emil Mikulic said the following:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 03:29:19PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> I think it's time to remind of this issue again.  I have no clue why
>> it happens but on my system I consistently see that my USB keyboard is
>> detected after mountroot. This worries me because this is a "legacy
>> free" system, i.e. it has no PS/2 ports. So if something unexpected
>> happens I won't be able to enter different boot device should kernel
>> boot ever stop at mountroot prompt.
> 
> I have the same problem and filed a PR:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=133989
> 
> The PR contains a patch that calls pause() in the prompt code.  This
> gets the keyboard detected but not actually working.  :(

Thank you for the info!
I updated the PR with my details, hope this issue won't go unnoticed :-)

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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