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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dual PPro timer stopping problem
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:46:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021003164641.F16875@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D9C7E7E.7B2BFB52@mvista.com>; from george@mvista.com on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:29:34AM -0700

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:29:34AM -0700, george anzinger wrote:
> The keyboard is, or at least depends on polling which is
> controled by a timer, thus, no timer, => no keyboard.

Eh?  Sure, by a timer internal to the keyboard itself.  At least x86 
hardware has an interrupt wired to its keyboard controller that is used 
to signal when a keystroke is available, and if you look into the driver, 
you'd see that no timers are used at all.

		-ben

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-03 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-03 14:03 Dual PPro timer stopping problem David Howells
2002-10-03 14:24 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-03 14:36   ` David Howells
2002-10-03 17:29 ` george anzinger
2002-10-03 20:46   ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-10-03 21:19     ` george anzinger

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