From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MLGz8-0005uZ-LN for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:33:26 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MLGz7-0005u5-4x for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:33:25 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MLGz2-0005rs-G4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:33:24 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43739 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MLGz2-0005rj-3U for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:33:20 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:59321) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MLGz1-0003Yb-FK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:33:19 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MLFvM-00031d-Tr for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:25:29 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MLGyx-0007aI-L8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:33:15 +0200 Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:33:15 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090629133315.GB20463@thorin> References: <20090627112521.GA28637@thorin> <1246248175.22661.19.camel@mj> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1246248175.22661.19.camel@mj> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) Subject: Re: at_keyboard flush on i386-qemu X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:33:25 -0000 On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:02:55AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > I would just read and discard the keyboard data from the port at startup > without embedding at_keyboard. Seems fine. > > I don't like that we have a race here. Suggestions welcome on how to > > improve that, but TTBOMK if there's more than one event you can't tell > > when you're processing the last one. > > I think there is at most one event. Actually, you need two events for a single key press (MAKE + BREAK), and I've seen it print two keys sometimes. > And I suspect it's due to a qemu > bug. Well, other firmwares (coreboot, bios.bin) don't have this problem. It's probably something that you need to do on real hardware anyway (which we might want to support someday). -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."