Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [SOLUTION] "i8042.c: No controller found" ->OS sees no keyboard if I type "in BIOS"

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Dinesh Subhraveti wrote:

> Sorry for the duplicate message above (mail server was taking hours to post, 
> and I got impatient...)
>
> Changing PS2_QUEUE_SIZE to 15 and the "reserved space" to 8 fixes the 
> problem for me:
>
> diff --git a/hw/ps2.c b/hw/ps2.c
> index fb77005..51a3ab8 100644
> --- a/hw/ps2.c
> +++ b/hw/ps2.c
> @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
>  #define MOUSE_STATUS_ENABLED    0x20
>  #define MOUSE_STATUS_SCALE21    0x10
>
> -#define PS2_QUEUE_SIZE 256
> +#define PS2_QUEUE_SIZE 15
>
>  typedef struct {
>      uint8_t data[PS2_QUEUE_SIZE];
> @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ static void ps2_mouse_event(void *opaque,
>      s->mouse_buttons = buttons_state;
>
>      if (!(s->mouse_status & MOUSE_STATUS_REMOTE) &&
> -        (s->common.queue.count < (PS2_QUEUE_SIZE - 16))) {
> +        (s->common.queue.count < (PS2_QUEUE_SIZE - 8))) {
>          for(;;) {
>              /* if not remote, send event. Multiple events are sent if
>                 too big deltas */
>
> Both keyboard and mouse remain responsive after reboot, no matter how much I 
> type / move the mouse during reboot.
>
> Any comments?

Hi Dinesh,

Thanks for this. I've applied this patch to the copy of kvm which hosts 
our NT4 virtual which has been experiencing random mouse/keyboard input 
problems. Fingers crossed that your patch will fix this issue for good...


ATB,

Mark.

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