Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261226AbTIYOQy (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:16:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261234AbTIYOQy (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:16:54 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([81.30.235.3]:37331 "EHLO twilight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261226AbTIYOQx (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:16:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:12:26 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Stuart Longland Cc: Nicolas Mailhot , Adrian Bunk , Vojtech Pavlik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PS2 keyboard & mice mandatory again ? Message-ID: <20030925141226.GA25505@ucw.cz> References: <1064428364.1673.11.camel@rousalka.dyndns.org> <20030925074656.GA22543@ucw.cz> <1064477341.13077.7.camel@ulysse.olympe.o2t> <20030925111547.GL15696@fs.tum.de> <1064491863.17990.10.camel@ulysse.olympe.o2t> <3F72F1F6.1040007@longlandclan.hopto.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F72F1F6.1040007@longlandclan.hopto.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1237 Lines: 30 On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:47:34PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > I presonally would like to be able to choose if I want to use the PS/2 > driver or not. Mainly because a couple of machines I have here, use the > old AT keyboard (DIN-5 connection, not PS/2 or USB), and have <128MB > RAM. For instance, how many 386 computers have you seen with at least > 32MB RAM & PS/2 or USB sockets? [1] Surprisingly enough, there is no difference between DIN-5 (aka Extended AT) and MiniDIN-6 (aka PS/2) keyboards except for the connector shape. So you'll need the driver even on your i386's. You can drop the mouse driver there, though. > (And yes, I probably would be crazy enough to go put Linux 2.6 on to a > 386, I've considered installing Gentoo on one actually -- just to see > how long it takes :-D) > > Footnotes: > 1. I've only seen one exception to this, that is one old (also dead) > Olivetti 386 laptop which had PS/2 keyboard & mouse sockets. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/