[syslinux] [PATCH] EFI booting may hang indefinitely when no keyboard is present

Oliver Wagner owagner at tellerulam.com
Sat Aug 15 09:35:12 PDT 2015


On 15.08.2015 14:31, Ady via Syslinux wrote:
>   
> Thank you for sharing patch.
>
> I assume this patch was tested on systems with no keyboard connected.
>
> I wonder whether it was (also) tested on systems that do have a
> keyboard connected. Among such systems, we could mention different
> types of connections (not just USB), and even those with a KVM switch
> (not to be confused with Kernel-based Virtual Machine).

The patch was tested with and without keyboard.

Please note that it doesn't touch any of the actual input handling; it 
solely modifies the input-discarding-loop immediately before jumping 
into the kernel.

Best Regards,
Olli



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