[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] i8042_flush change

[John Baboval]

On 10/27/2011 07:56 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 04:55:15PM -0400, John Baboval wrote:
>>
>> I believe a more robust way to do this would be to first issue a
>> RESET command, and then flush. That resolves the issue that I am
>> seeing.
> As for the queue length - this seems like a virtual machine quirk with
> timing.  The goal of the code is to clear the i8042 buffer which
> shouldn't be more than a few bytes.  On a real machine, the keyboard
> wouldn't have enough time to fill the i8042 before the flush would
> remove any characters.
>
> It's possible to increase the timeout, but the increased boot time can
> be annoying for users on real hardware without a ps2 port.  Another
> option may be to change the code so that it reads and discards
> continuosly for 1ms - that way it can clear however many bytes are
> present, but still move on quickly if the port isn't responding.
>

Since the flush breaks out of the loop when the buffer is empty, 
increasing the count shouldn't increase boot times except in cases where 
the keyboard would have been broken anyway.

I like the time based mechanism, though. The reset and then looping for 
<buffer size> iterations was still a race between the loop and the key 
repeat or angry user.

I will re-code it as a time-based loop instead of a count based loop and 
re-submit it.

I'm also trying to figure out how my buffer is getting filled so early.