Re: [PATCH 9/11] Panic delay fix

[Andi Kleen]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 02:31:57PM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >
> >I am confused - does i8042 talk to a virtual or real hardware here? In
> >any case I think you need to fix kernel/panic.c to have proper
> >(m)delay, not mess with i8042.
> 
> I think I need to fix both of them actually.  This is virtual hardware, 
> but when you grab focus on a VM, the virtual hardware gets reflected to 
> the actual physical keyboard.  Driving physical hardware that fast is bad.

???

Surely the physical keyboard is always handled by the host kernel? 
I hope you're not saying it's trying to access the io ports directly?

-Andi
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