Messages in this thread | | | Date | 8 Feb 2007 09:24:43 +0100 | Date | Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:24:43 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 9/11] Panic delay fix |
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 02:31:57PM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote: > 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.
???
Surely the physical keyboard is always handled by the host kernel? I hope you're not saying it's trying to access the io ports directly?
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