On Thursday 27 July 2006 15:04, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Thursday 27 July 2006 20:40, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > maksim yevmenkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > No, kbdmux needs to be fixed so it works in DDB. > > > > > > actually, atkbd(4) needs to be fixed to support "polled" mode :) > > > > It used to work fine before kbdmux(4) came along... > > > > Just a comment: Don't forget to lock Giant before calling anything in the > keyboard layer. That means DDB must lock Giant, else at least my new USB > keyboard driver will panic, saying Giant is not owned. The old USB keyboard > driver did not care about this.
DDB should not be acquiring locks or depend on being able to do so. When you panic the machine is an unknown state for one, and you really want to leave the overall system state as undisturbed as possible while in the debugger to aid in debugging. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
