Re: [PATCH 9/11] Panic delay fix

[Zachary Amsden]

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.

Zach

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