This caused an initialization failure of the i8042 when I tested on
bare metal. We cannot entirely get rid of this method as QEMU for
example doesn't indicate the existence of an i8042 via ACPI, but we can
get away with only doing the manual probing if ACPI is disabled or we
didn't get a 'yes' from it.
Increasing the number of maximum loops did eventually lead to a
successful return from the function, but would later fail the actual
self test.
Not only does it makes the code more robust and correct as it allows
error propagation, it allows us to enforce timeouts on waiting loops so
we don't hang forever, by waiting for the i8042 controller to respond to
us.
Therefore, it makes the i8042 more resilient against faulty hardware and
bad behaving chipsets out there.
If we don't do so, we just hang forever because we assume there's i8042
controller in the system, which is not a valid assumption for modern PC
hardware.
As soon as we enable the first PS/2 port on the I8042 controller, the
output buffer may become full. We need to drain it before attempting
any new commands with the controller (such as enabling the second PS/2
port).
Fixes#10872.
The default template argument is only used in one place, and it
looks like it was probably just an oversight. The rest of the Kernel
code all uses u8 as the type. So lets make that the default and remove
the unused template argument, as there doesn't seem to be a reason to
allow the size to be customizable.
If we are in a shared interrupt handler, the called handlers might
indicate it was not their interrupt, so we should not increment the
call counter of these handlers.
We had some inconsistencies before:
- Sometimes "The", sometimes "the"
- Sometimes trailing ".", sometimes no trailing "."
I picked the most common one (lowecase "the", trailing ".") and applied
it to all copyright headers.
By using the exact same string everywhere we can ensure nothing gets
missed during a global search (and replace), and that these
inconsistencies are not spread any further (as copyright headers are
commonly copied to new files).
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
The end goal of this commit is to allow to boot on bare metal with no
PS/2 device connected to the system. It turned out that the original
code relied on the existence of the PS/2 keyboard, so VirtualConsole
called it even though ACPI indicated the there's no i8042 controller on
my real machine because I didn't plug any PS/2 device.
The code is much more flexible, so adding HID support for other type of
hardware (e.g. USB HID) could be much simpler.
Briefly describing the change, we have a new singleton called
HIDManagement, which is responsible to initialize the i8042 controller
if exists, and to enumerate its devices. I also abstracted a bit
things, so now every Human interface device is represented with the
HIDDevice class. Then, there are 2 types of it - the MouseDevice and
KeyboardDevice classes; both are responsible to handle the interface in
the DevFS.
PS2KeyboardDevice, PS2MouseDevice and VMWareMouseDevice classes are
responsible for handling the hardware-specific interface they are
assigned to. Therefore, they are inheriting from the IRQHandler class.
2021-04-03 11:57:23 +02:00
Renamed from Kernel/Devices/I8042Controller.h (Browse further)
