Re: forcing PS/2 USB emulation off

Vojtech Pavlik
2004-10-21T06:26:19Z

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 08:56:43PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Maw, 2004-10-19 at 07:30, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > Like 30% of all notebooks? ;) They do boot without the USB handoff, the
> > PS/2 mouse works, but only as a PS/2 mouse, no extended capabilities
> > detection is possible due to the BIOS interference.
>
> I started in favour of avoiding always doing the handoff, but now I'm
> convinced handoff should be the default.

And I would be fine to move the atkbd/psmouse initialization down in the
Makefiles so that USB gets initialized first - but what do we do about
the modular case?

I do agree that we should have only one copy of the handoff code,
regardless of where it's living.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR