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Morlac
February 3rd, 2001, 03:15
Hi everybody,
Can anybody tell me if its possible to redirect one hardware buffer to another hw buffer using kernel drivers?
I mean, lets say that i have a USB keyboard and i want to programme a driver that will redirect/send all commands from the USB kb buffer to the i8042 port buffer? Is it possible? any other technique that can work.
I cant wait for Numega to support USB kbs.

with regards,
Morlac

The Owl
February 3rd, 2001, 03:57
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Can anybody tell me if its possible to redirect one hardware buffer to another hw buffer using kernel drivers?
I mean, lets say that i have a USB keyboard and i want to programme a driver that will redirect/send all commands from the USB kb buffer to the i8042 port buffer? Is it possible? any other technique that can work.
I cant wait for Numega to support USB kbs.


problem with USB is that it's a tad bit more complex system than the
old keyboard controller. for one, it's a full system bus with its own
protocol (the USB keyboard being just one of the devices); second,
NT has its own abstraction for drivers that i doubt would work in
NTICE context. maybe you can take a look at some Linux source code
and try to figure out whether the effort of making that work in NTICE
context is worth your time or not.