[openbeos] Re: interrupt question

  • From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 21:17:40 -0400

>"Jared Eldredge" <jared@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> i vote for the "recovery disk" method - test it once to make sure and 
>> Be Happy (tm)
>
>It's much easier to install that driver into /boot/home/config/add-ons 
>instead so that your driver comes first, and the original driver 
>doesn't have to be loaded at all.
>If it doesn't work, you could then disable the user add-ons on boot.

I thought about this, but I couldn't see anywhere where there was a guarantee 
that drivers loaded from ~ would cause those loaded from /system not to be 
used. Does that key on file name? Or interrupt or ???

>Probably much simpler would be to do that using Bochs and directly with 
>the OpenBeOS kernel - just replace the current keyboard/ps2mouse driver 
>with your own - plain and simple.

That's probably not a bad idea, assuming that he doesn't use any functionality 
that we haven't implemented yet.


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