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Message-ID:  <s0fqclp3bw1f$.1ovr22f673taq$.dlg@40tude.net>
Date:	Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:41:29 +0200
From:	Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@...pop.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: Early keyboard initialization?

On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 21:58:54 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> It looks like the change will only work for non-USB input devices since
> USB subsystem is initialized much later.

Doesn't the BIOS handle USB keyboards someway? (To handle BIOS setup
and stuff like that)

If the BIOS emulates a non-USB keyboard, would it be possible to init
the fake one early and then give up control when the USB subsystem is
initialized?

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

"I'm never quite so stupid
 as when I'm being smart" --Linus van Pelt

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