[openbeos] Re: interrupt question

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 03:22:12 +0200 CEST

"Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >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 ???

Actually, the system shouldn't let a driver publish the same entry 
twice. Also, the input_server should only open one mouse input device?

> >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.

If he needs an ISA module, contact me and you'll get one :-)
(after a day or so)

Adios...
   Axel.


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