Re: [TCLUG:12028] Kernel keybd routines

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

> So I'm playing with the old 386 laptop I got from Senor
> Palmer, and sure enough -- just as he said -- it's happy
> to run pre 2.0 kernels, but if you try and load > 2.0, it
> doesn't understand the keyboard.  (It's aN I.B.M.  L40SX PS/2
> 386 laptop.)
> 
> I'm idly curious about what in the kernel handles the keyboard and its
> interrupts.  Perhaps a 2.2 kernel with a 1.2 keyboard module could be
> built?  Any experts?

All I know is that the 2.2 kernels (and maybe the late 2.0 kernels as
well) integrated the driver for the mouse and keyboard on systems that
have PS/2 mice.  That's all I really know, though..

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