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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 18:31:04 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] [patch] kdb-v2.1-2.4.18-ia64-usb-keyboard
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>>>>> On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 10:03:50 +0200, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> said:

  Andreas> Sebastien Lelarge <Sebastien.Lelarge@bull.net> writes:

  Sebastien> Notice that you won't be able to use your USB Keyboard
  Sebastien> before USB is started. But it's a solution to
  Sebastien> debug a system running.

  Andreas> Another solution is to use a serial console.

The hp zx1-based machines are legacy-free, so there is no old-fashion
serial port.  Instead, the serial ports can be found via ACPI.  In the
current machines, they're in memory-mapped I/O space.  I have a kdb
patch to support this and will send it out soon (it needs a bit of
cleaning up).

	--david