Re: oskit driver for i8042 keyboard controller

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:43:28PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Confirmed.  What is the non-bus-walk name of these devices (just curious)?
> 
> What do you mean?  Devices don't have flat names.  The names like "eth0"
> and so forth are compatibility hacks in bus_walk_from_compat_string.

I thought the bus walk was to find a leaf in a hierarchy of devices, where
the bus is a top node of the devices on the bus.  Ie, like "i8042:kbd" etc. 
But that might be pure fiction, I never really groked the way devices are
organized in oskit.
 
> > Ah, which reminds me that I still use device_read and not
> > device_read_inband, in my kbd driver.
> 
> Well that's just silly.  But they should both work.

Yeah, I just c&p'ed that line from some other place.

> > Writing of the bytes doesn't seem to work properly, I set up streamio
> > (cat'ing from that works fine), and then I tried
> > 
> > echo $'\xED\x07' > kbd
> 
> The examples/x86/i8042 test program does just that, and it works (lights go
> on).  So this must be a problem interacting with oskit-mach.

Ok, I will go into the debugging.
 
Thanks,
Marcus

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