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- Subject: a few small BIOS IO patches, oops...
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 93 14:01:10 CET
- From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- Message-Id: <9310101301.AA00138@jelal.north.de>
-
- Juergen Lock writes:
-
- > 2. auto-repeat on console doesn't generate keyboard interrupts and so
- > a select on the keyboard usually did not wake up before the key was
- > released (or timeout). this was the reason for the often sluggish
- > response on vts...
- >
- > Index: intr.spp
- > --- intr.spp_ Tue Aug 17 11:11:20 1993
- > +++ intr.spp Sat Oct 9 14:05:34 1993
-
- this patch works but only because it ends up setting kintr always :-)
- (keyrec is IOREC * not IOREC). also i looked where repeat is done:
- before evnt_timer is called. so i think this is a better place:
-
- Index: timeout.c
- --- timeout.c_ Fri Jun 25 21:24:20 1993
- +++ timeout.c Sun Oct 10 03:54:32 1993
- @@ -140,6 +140,10 @@
- * suspends the current process
- */
-
- +/* variables for monitoring the keyboard */
- +extern IOREC_T *keyrec; /* keyboard i/o record pointer */
- +extern short kintr; /* keyboard interrupt pending (see intr.s) */
- +
- volatile int our_clock = 1000;
-
- void ARGS_ON_STACK
- @@ -147,6 +151,8 @@
- {
- int ms; /* time between ticks */
-
- + *(char *)&kintr = (keyrec->head != keyrec->tail) ? -1 : 0;
- +
- ms = *((short *)0x442L);
- if (proc_clock > 0)
- proc_clock--;
-
- sorry,
- Juergen
-
- PS: to get rid of a bad patch just feed it thru patch again, it will ask
- if it should `un-patch'...
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