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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:46:41 -0400
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: Dual PPro timer stopping problem
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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:29:34AM -0700, george anzinger wrote:
> The keyboard is, or at least depends on polling which is
> controled by a timer, thus, no timer, => no keyboard.

Eh?  Sure, by a timer internal to the keyboard itself.  At least x86 
hardware has an interrupt wired to its keyboard controller that is used 
to signal when a keystroke is available, and if you look into the driver, 
you'd see that no timers are used at all.

		-ben
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