Re: MB without keyboard controller / USB-only keyboard ?

[Pete Zaitcev]

>> > > pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF)
>> > 
>> > Does your BIOS do keyboard emulation ?
>> 
>> It is Compaq EVO D510. It has merely nothing of interest in the BIOS (no
>> keyboard emu). As far as I remember it contains an I845 chipset.
> 
> Can you use the USB keyboard to configure the BIOS during boot. If so
> then it almost certainly has USB bios emulation. Another trivial test
> that would be useful is to stick a freedos boot floppy in the box and
> see if freedos works

I fail to see the point, Alan. Stephan's BIOS does exactly the
right thing: it emulates BIOS INTs which allow to read buffered
keystrokes, but it does not do SMM tricks to emulate port 0x60.
This is great, now pc_keyb.d must do detection right. It must
not loop endlessly if 0xff is returned from inb(). It's a bug.

-- Pete