On 19 April 2013 19:00, Ján Veselý <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately, I don't have any other mouse to check with.
>> The question is, do we try to fix this, or at least make it safe (even
>> if not really usable)? Or do we just assume it's a qemu bug and leave
>> it?
>
> The situation is definitely pathological, but the crash should be fixed.
> It looks like a missing malloc check somewhere. IMO the best
> approach would be to just drop the interrupt if the handling fibril
> cannot be created,
> ignoring the resulting breakage.
>

Sorry, when I said crash I really meant that it's killed by kernel due
to unsatisfiable late reservation.

>>
>>> Can you try using USB mouse (either qemu emulation or pipe it directly),
>>> the results should be interesting?
>>>
>>
>> So I tried emulated USB mouse.
>> Again, no other mouse to compare with, but although it doesn't move
>> all that smoothly, it works quite well and is nicely responsive.
>
> good to hear. if you feel like doing more testing I'd like to see
> whether helenos can handle the device directly.
>

Can that be done with qemu?

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