<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">>On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 06:31:31AM -0800, Alain Ribière wrote:<br><div><div>> > I ran qemu 1.0.1 and the latest SeaBIOS (from the git) with the following options :<br>> > qemu-system-i386 -L git/bios -fda disk.img -no-fd-bootchk -boot a -m 16<br>> > <br>> > Here is the log :<br>> > <a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B7mz0vq6Rpb7UE1ibjJDcEhTRWlNV050QnMyMWwtZw" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B7mz0vq6Rpb7UE1ibjJDcEhTRWlNV050QnMyMWwtZw</a><br>> > <br>> > Here is the floppy disk image I used :<br>> > <br>> > <a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B7mz0vq6Rpb7bHpYaEt2SnVUUi1KaWE3a3lBQUJpQQ" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B7mz0vq6Rpb7bHpYaEt2SnVUUi1KaWE3a3lBQUJpQQ</a><br>> > <br>> > <br>> > The floppy disk is simply
a C-DOS 720 Ko floppy created by "format<br>> > a: /s". So it's quite empty.<br>> > <br>> > Qemu doesn't crash or freeze. But I can just type a single character<br>> > and the nothing else. But the system is still running (there is a<br>> > clock at the bottom right of the screen).<br>> <br>> I tracked this down. Looks like the image takes over the PS2 irq and<br>> keyboard handling, but then occasionally calls into the BIOS. When it<br>> does call the BIOS irq handler (manually), it expects the irq handler<br>> to enable the keyboard. Weird.<br>> <br>> Anyway, the patch below fixes it for me.<br>> <br>> -Kevin<br><br>Great ! It works for me too.<br><br>Thanks a lot,<br><br>Alain<br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>