Re: [PATCH 9/11] Panic delay fix

Zachary Amsden
2007-02-07T22:31:59Z

Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> I am confused - does i8042 talk to a virtual or real hardware here? In
> any case I think you need to fix kernel/panic.c to have proper
> (m)delay, not mess with i8042.

I think I need to fix both of them actually. This is virtual hardware,
but when you grab focus on a VM, the virtual hardware gets reflected to
the actual physical keyboard. Driving physical hardware that fast is bad.

Zach