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Re: at_keyboard flush on i386-qemu


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: at_keyboard flush on i386-qemu
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:33:15 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:02:55AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 
> I would just read and discard the keyboard data from the port at startup
> without embedding at_keyboard.

Seems fine.

> > I don't like that we have a race here.  Suggestions welcome on how to
> > improve that, but TTBOMK if there's more than one event you can't tell
> > when you're processing the last one.
> 
> I think there is at most one event.

Actually, you need two events for a single key press (MAKE + BREAK), and
I've seen it print two keys sometimes.

> And I suspect it's due to a qemu
> bug.

Well, other firmwares (coreboot, bios.bin) don't have this problem.  It's
probably something that you need to do on real hardware anyway (which we
might want to support someday).

-- 
Robert Millan

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