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From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dual PPro timer stopping problem
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 14:19:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D9CB470.8BCA89F7@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021003164641.F16875@redhat.com

Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:29:34AM -0700, george anzinger wrote:
> > The keyboard is, or at least depends on polling which is
> > controled by a timer, thus, no timer, => no keyboard.
> 
> Eh?  Sure, by a timer internal to the keyboard itself.  At least x86
> hardware has an interrupt wired to its keyboard controller that is used
> to signal when a keystroke is available, and if you look into the driver,
> you'd see that no timers are used at all.
> 
Hm?  I must have been seeing double ;)  Been doing that a
lot lately :(
-- 
George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
High-res-timers: 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Preemption patch:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml

      reply	other threads:[~2002-10-03 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-03 14:03 Dual PPro timer stopping problem David Howells
2002-10-03 14:24 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-03 14:36   ` David Howells
2002-10-03 17:29 ` george anzinger
2002-10-03 20:46   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-10-03 21:19     ` george anzinger [this message]

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