Planned removal of USB keyboard support from kdb
Hi, Keith
Quoted 9 lines · Keith Owens
Sebastien Lelarge did a patch for USB keyboard support in kdb, to support IA64 machines made by Bull. AFAICT nobody has managed to get this code to work, including the USB maintainer. The USB code in kdb for 2.5 kernels is a straight copy of the 2.4 code and will not even compile, I have asked for updates to make it work on 2.5 with no response.
Has anybody got USB keyboard support to work on 2.4 kernels?
It works OK on 2.4.19 ia64.
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If it works on 2.4, will anybody make USB support work in kdb for 2.5 kernels? i386 only will do, kdb for ia64 is waiting for a current ia64 2.5 patch from David Mosberger (away at the moment).
It should not be a big problem to have it working on 2.5 ia64.
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Without evidence that this feature works and support for 2.5 kernels, USB keyboard support will be removed from kdb. I will wait until November 12 before deciding.
The Tiger machines have no PS2 keyboard, and even if we can use a serial console to debug, it is interesting to have kdb working on USB.
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