WARNING: Device "psm" is Giant locked and may be ...:

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Jos Chrispijn

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Jul 17, 2026, 11:48:49 AM (18 hours ago) Jul 17

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WARNING: Device "psm" is Giant locked and may be ...:

Can you tell if this is a warning, a kernel related issue or triggered by Promox (a multi-CPU environment)?
I am running FreeBSD in a Proxmox VM

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Marco Moock

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Jul 17, 2026, 11:53:17 AM (18 hours ago) Jul 17

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Am 17.07.26 um 17:48 schrieb Jos Chrispijn:

> Can you tell if this is a warning, a kernel related issue or triggered by Promox
> (a multi-CPU environment)?
> I am running FreeBSD in a Proxmox VM

It is an information that the psm PS/2 mouse driver is being deprecated.
Dunno why someone did that, but various laptop touchpads use it and even
new motherboards have PS/2.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/device-is-giant-locked-and-may-be-deleted.96592/

I do not know about the current situation, but I advocate to keep PS/2
support for both mice and keyboards.

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