Re: Kernel debugging / drivers (was: USB keyboard driver the GNU Mach)

2016-03-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I agree that having a in-kernel USB keyboard driver makes sense for the debugger. As for the interaction with userland USB support, I don't think we can share the access to the same USB chip, so when the kernel driver is running the userland driver can't run. One could say that when the U

Kernel debugging / drivers (was: USB keyboard driver the GNU Mach)

2016-03-20 Thread Olaf Buddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:41:43PM +0100, Justus Winter wrote: > While we generally want to move away from drivers in the kernel, it > might indeed be nice to have a keyboard driver inside it for kdb. Hm, this is an interesting point. I haven't actually considered keyboard drivers up till no

Re: USB keyboard driver the GNU Mach

2016-02-29 Thread Justus Winter
Hi Rowland :) Quoting Rowland Smith (2016-02-29 01:47:08) > This does not seem like the right forum for this post, but this list looks > like the only hurd list with any activity, so here goes. This is the perfect place for this. Welcome :) > I have taken on the project this year of getting the

USB keyboard driver the GNU Mach

2016-02-28 Thread Rowland Smith
This does not seem like the right forum for this post, but this list looks like the only hurd list with any activity, so here goes. I have taken on the project this year of getting the hurd running on an oldish PC on bare metal. The first issue I encountered is that the PC does not have a PS/2 por