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- From: james@raid.dell.com (James Van Artsdalen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: 386BSD 0.1: pccons.c bug
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.061759.13547@raid.dell.com>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 06:17:59 GMT
- Sender: james@raid.dell.com (James Van Artsdalen)
- Reply-To: james@raid.dell.com (James Van Artsdalen)
- Organization: Dell Computer Corporation
- Lines: 35
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- I think there is a bug in the function kbd_cmd in pccons.c.
-
- kbd_cmd waits for the 8042 input buffer to empty, and then writes a
- byte destined for the keyboard.
-
- kbd_cmd then waits for the 8042 input buffer to become empty again,
- and then reads the output buffer. This part is wrong: kbd_cmd should
- wait for the output buffer to become full, rather than wait for the
- input buffer to become empty.
-
- I haven't tested this change. I found the bug by inspection.
-
- *** pccons.c.~1~ Sun Jul 26 01:12:26 1992
- --- pccons.c Sun Jul 26 01:13:36 1992
- ***************
- *** 155,161 ****
-
- while (inb(KBSTATP)&KBS_IBF);
- if (val) outb(KBOUTP, val);
- ! while (inb(KBSTATP)&KBS_IBF);
- return (inb(KBDATAP));
- }
-
- --- 155,161 ----
-
- while (inb(KBSTATP)&KBS_IBF);
- if (val) outb(KBOUTP, val);
- ! while (inb(KBSTATP)&KBS_DIB);
- return (inb(KBDATAP));
- }
-
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