diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0ba6fde..8ddba03 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ KERN_ZSTD = $(addprefix $(BUILD)/zstd/, \
 KERN_ZSTD += $(BUILD)/kernel/scff/scff.o
 
 # GMMOS, what runs after a panic, and its micro drivers. See include/gmmos/gmmos.h.
-KERN_GMMOS = $(addprefix $(BUILD)/kernel/gmmos/, gmmos.o ps2.o)
+KERN_GMMOS = $(addprefix $(BUILD)/kernel/gmmos/, gmmos.o hidkeys.o ps2.o i2c.o)
 
 KERN_PROC = $(addprefix $(BUILD)/kernel/proc/, \
               proc.o)
diff --git a/include/dev/hid.h b/include/dev/hid.h
index a390ddb..e6c21f4 100644
--- a/include/dev/hid.h
+++ b/include/dev/hid.h
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ void *hid_attach(const uchar *desc, int n, const char *what);
 // One input report, report ID included when the device uses them.
 void  hid_attached_input(void *h, const uchar *rep, int len);
 
+// For GMMOS, after a panic: whether a device is a keyboard, and one of its
+// reports rewritten into the 8-byte boot layout (modifiers, reserved, six
+// usages) with nothing else done -- no queue, no lock, no events. 0 when the
+// report was not a keyboard's.
+int   hid_is_keyboard(void *h);
+int   hid_boot_report(void *h, const uchar *rep, int len, uchar *boot);
+
 // I2C-HID: the touchpads (and some keyboards) of laptops. Started once ACPI
 // and kernel threads are up; see kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c_hid.c.
 void  i2c_hid_start(void);
diff --git a/include/gmmos/gmmos.h b/include/gmmos/gmmos.h
index 0e8b31d..ccd119c 100644
--- a/include/gmmos/gmmos.h
+++ b/include/gmmos/gmmos.h
@@ -31,6 +31,33 @@ struct gmmos_kbd {
 };
 
 extern const struct gmmos_kbd gmmos_ps2;
+extern const struct gmmos_kbd gmmos_i2c;
+
+// A USB or I2C keyboard report in the boot layout -- modifiers, a reserved
+// byte, six usages -- turned into keys. A report is a state, not an event, so
+// a key is a usage that was not in the previous one. kernel/gmmos/hidkeys.c.
+struct gmmos_hidkeys {
+  uchar prev[8];
+  int   q[16];
+  int   qh, qt;
+};
+void gmmos_hid_report(struct gmmos_hidkeys *k, const uchar *boot);
+int  gmmos_hid_next(struct gmmos_hidkeys *k);
+
+// I2C keyboards, as kernel/acpi/i2c_hid.c found them at boot. GMMOS cannot run
+// ACPI to find them again, so the live driver hands over what it learnt: the
+// DesignWare controller, the device's address, its input report size, the
+// interrupt pin when there is one, and the parsed report descriptor.
+struct gmmos_i2c_kbd {
+  volatile uint32 *regs;
+  int    txdepth, rxdepth;
+  int    addr;
+  uint32 maxin;
+  volatile uint32 *pin;         // AMD GPIO pin register, or 0: poll blindly
+  int    active_low;
+  void  *hid;
+};
+int i2c_hid_keyboards(struct gmmos_i2c_kbd *out, int max);
 
 // From kernel/core/panic.c: draw the report again, and where its closing
 // lines are, which GMMOS writes its status and its keys into.
diff --git a/kernel/acpi/i2c_hid.c b/kernel/acpi/i2c_hid.c
index b4309a8..e9a6c88 100644
--- a/kernel/acpi/i2c_hid.c
+++ b/kernel/acpi/i2c_hid.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
 #include <uacpi/utilities.h>
 #include <uacpi/namespace.h>
 #include <uacpi/resources.h>
+#include "gmmos/gmmos.h"
 
 // Each step said before it is taken, in a verbose boot: a machine that stops
 // here stops with the step it was on as the last line on the screen.
@@ -653,6 +654,30 @@ i2c_hid_main(void *arg)
   }
 }
 
+// For GMMOS. Read without a lock: `ndev` only ever grows, and only before the
+// polling loop starts, so a panic sees a list that was finished or not begun.
+int
+i2c_hid_keyboards(struct gmmos_i2c_kbd *out, int max)
+{
+  int i, n = 0;
+
+  for(i = 0; i < ndev && n < max; i++){
+    struct i2chid *d = &devs[i];
+    if(!hid_is_keyboard(d->hid))
+      continue;
+    out[n].regs = d->c->regs;
+    out[n].txdepth = d->c->txdepth;
+    out[n].rxdepth = d->c->rxdepth;
+    out[n].addr = d->addr;
+    out[n].maxin = d->maxin;
+    out[n].pin = d->pin;
+    out[n].active_low = d->active_low;
+    out[n].hid = d->hid;
+    n++;
+  }
+  return n;
+}
+
 static void
 i2c_hid_thread(void)
 {
diff --git a/kernel/drivers/usb/hid/usb_hid.c b/kernel/drivers/usb/hid/usb_hid.c
index 94cea98..af185bb 100644
--- a/kernel/drivers/usb/hid/usb_hid.c
+++ b/kernel/drivers/usb/hid/usb_hid.c
@@ -525,19 +525,19 @@ bits(const uchar *p, int len, int bit, int size)
 // A report-protocol keyboard report, rewritten as a boot one: modifiers, a
 // reserved byte, six usages. Six is a limit only of the rewrite; the seventh
 // key held at once is dropped, which is what a boot keyboard does too.
-static void
-report_keyboard(struct hid *h, const uchar *rep, int len)
+// Nothing else happens here, which is what lets GMMOS call it after a panic.
+static int
+to_boot(struct hid *h, const uchar *rep, int len, uchar *boot)
 {
-  uchar boot[8];
   int i, n = 0;
 
   if(h->kbd_id){
     if(len < 1 || rep[0] != h->kbd_id)
-      return;
+      return 0;
     rep++;
     len--;
   }
-  memset(boot, 0, sizeof(boot));
+  memset(boot, 0, 8);
   for(i = 0; i < 8; i++)
     if(h->mod_bit[i] >= 0 && bits(rep, len, h->mod_bit[i], 1))
       boot[0] |= 1 << i;
@@ -555,7 +555,36 @@ report_keyboard(struct hid *h, const uchar *rep, int len)
     if(n < 6)
       boot[2 + n++] = u;
   }
-  keyboard_report(h, boot, sizeof(boot));
+  return 1;
+}
+
+static void
+report_keyboard(struct hid *h, const uchar *rep, int len)
+{
+  uchar boot[8];
+
+  if(to_boot(h, rep, len, boot))
+    keyboard_report(h, boot, sizeof(boot));
+}
+
+int
+hid_is_keyboard(void *hv)
+{
+  struct hid *h = hv;
+  return h && (h->rkbd || h->proto == USB_HID_PROTO_KEYBOARD);
+}
+
+int
+hid_boot_report(void *hv, const uchar *rep, int len, uchar *boot)
+{
+  struct hid *h = hv;
+
+  if(h->rkbd)
+    return to_boot(h, rep, len, boot);
+  if(h->proto != USB_HID_PROTO_KEYBOARD || len < 8)
+    return 0;
+  memmove(boot, rep, 8);
+  return 1;
 }
 
 static int
diff --git a/kernel/gmmos/gmmos.c b/kernel/gmmos/gmmos.c
index 5bad2ca..be7b9a8 100644
--- a/kernel/gmmos/gmmos.c
+++ b/kernel/gmmos/gmmos.c
@@ -47,7 +47,30 @@ static addr_t *pcs;
 static int     npcs;
 
 static int sw, sh, cw, ch;
-static const struct gmmos_kbd *kbd;
+// Every micro driver, in the order they are tried. All that answer are
+// polled: a laptop has its own keyboard and maybe a USB one on the side.
+static const struct gmmos_kbd *const drivers[] = { &gmmos_ps2, &gmmos_i2c };
+static const struct gmmos_kbd *kbds[NELEM(drivers)];
+static int nkbd;
+
+static int
+poll_keys(void)
+{
+  for (int i = 0; i < nkbd; i++) {
+    int k = kbds[i]->poll();
+    if (k)
+      return k;
+  }
+  return 0;
+}
+
+static void
+set_lights(int on)
+{
+  for (int i = 0; i < nkbd; i++)
+    if (kbds[i]->leds)
+      kbds[i]->leds(on);
+}
 
 enum { MAIN, QRPAGES, LOG, TERM };
 static int mode = MAIN;
@@ -493,6 +516,7 @@ cmd_help(void)
   tline("pci               PCI devices");
   tline("mem ADDR [LEN]    bytes at a kernel address; both in hex (80, up to 400)");
   tline("uptime            how long it ran, and how long since");
+  tline("keyboards         which keyboards GMMOS is reading");
   tline("clear             empty this screen");
   tline("restart           restart the machine");
   tline("poweroff          power it off");
@@ -763,6 +787,10 @@ run(void)
   else if (streq(w, "pci"))          cmd_pci();
   else if (streq(w, "mem"))          cmd_mem(arg);
   else if (streq(w, "uptime"))       cmd_uptime();
+  else if (streq(w, "keyboards")) {
+    for (int i = 0; i < nkbd; i++)
+      tline(kbds[i]->name);
+  }
   else if (streq(w, "clear"))        tn = 0;
   else if (streq(w, "restart") || streq(w, "reboot")) restart();
   else if (streq(w, "poweroff")) {
@@ -829,7 +857,7 @@ draw_status(void)
     sb_putc(&sb, ':');
     sb_putc(&sb, (char)('0' + left % 60 / 10));
     sb_putc(&sb, (char)('0' + left % 10));
-    sb_puts(&sb, kbd ? ".  Any key keeps it on." : ".");
+    sb_puts(&sb, nkbd ? ".  Any key keeps it on." : ".");
   } else {
     sb_puts(&sb, "Staying on. Nothing here is lost until it restarts.");
   }
@@ -837,7 +865,7 @@ draw_status(void)
   textn(x, y + step, sbz(&sb), (sw * 2 / 3 - x) / cw, PSOGM_DIM);
 
   gfx_fill_rect(x, y + step * 3, sw - x, ch + 2, PSOGM_BG);
-  if (kbd)
+  if (nkbd)
     textn(x, y + step * 3,
           "Space  log as QR    L  read the log    T  terminal    R  restart    P  power off",
           (sw - x) / cw, PSOGM_FG);
@@ -961,8 +989,9 @@ gmmos_run(char *r, addr_t *p, int n)
   rows = (sh - my * 2) / ch;
 
   log_snapshot();
-  if (gmmos_ps2.probe())
-    kbd = &gmmos_ps2;
+  for (int i = 0; i < (int)NELEM(drivers); i++)
+    if (drivers[i]->probe())
+      kbds[nkbd++] = drivers[i];
   tline("GMMOS, the Guru Meditation Micro OS. The kernel is dead; this is what");
   tline("runs after it. help lists the commands.");
   draw_status();
@@ -971,10 +1000,10 @@ gmmos_run(char *r, addr_t *p, int n)
   int lights = 0, keyed = 0;
 
   for (;;) {
-    int k = kbd ? kbd->poll() : 0;
+    int k = poll_keys();
     if (k) {
-      if (!keyed && kbd->leds) {
-        kbd->leds(0);              // somebody is here: the lights have done their job
+      if (!keyed) {
+        set_lights(0);             // somebody is here: the lights have done their job
         lights = 0;
       }
       keyed = 1;
@@ -1001,10 +1030,10 @@ gmmos_run(char *r, addr_t *p, int n)
     }
     // The lights until somebody presses a key, as panic_blink did: on a
     // machine whose screen is black, they are all there is to say it died.
-    if (!keyed && kbd && kbd->leds && t - last_blink >= 333) {
+    if (!keyed && t - last_blink >= 333) {
       last_blink = t;
       lights = !lights;
-      kbd->leds(lights);
+      set_lights(lights);
     }
     if (!boot_verbose && !cancelled && t - entered_ms >= OFF_MS) {
       acpi_poweroff_now();
diff --git a/kernel/gmmos/hidkeys.c b/kernel/gmmos/hidkeys.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e924f9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/gmmos/hidkeys.c
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+//
+// Boot-layout keyboard reports to keys, for GMMOS's USB and I2C keyboards.
+//
+// usb_hid.c's keyboard path with the console, /dev/input, the lock and key
+// repeat taken out: what is left is edge detection and a table. US layout, as
+// the live USB path is.
+
+#include "core/types.h"
+#include "core/defs.h"
+#include "dev/kbd.h"
+#include "gmmos/gmmos.h"
+
+#define MOD_CTRL  0x11
+#define MOD_SHIFT 0x22
+
+static const uchar plain[0x39] = {
+  0, 0, 0, 0,
+  'a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m',
+  'n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z',
+  '1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','0',
+  '\n', 0x1B, '\b', '\t', ' ',
+  '-','=','[',']','\\','#',';','\'','`',',','.','/',
+};
+
+static const uchar shifted[0x39] = {
+  0, 0, 0, 0,
+  'A','B','C','D','E','F','G','H','I','J','K','L','M',
+  'N','O','P','Q','R','S','T','U','V','W','X','Y','Z',
+  '!','@','#','$','%','^','&','*','(',')',
+  '\n', 0x1B, '\b', '\t', ' ',
+  '_','+','{','}','|','~',':','"','~','<','>','?',
+};
+
+static int
+special(uchar u)
+{
+  switch (u) {
+  case 0x4A: return KBD_HOME;
+  case 0x4B: return KBD_PGUP;
+  case 0x4C: return KBD_DEL;
+  case 0x4D: return KBD_END;
+  case 0x4E: return KBD_PGDN;
+  case 0x4F: return KBD_RT;
+  case 0x50: return KBD_LF;
+  case 0x51: return KBD_DN;
+  case 0x52: return KBD_UP;
+  case 0x56: return '-';          // keypad minus and plus: the QR size keys
+  case 0x57: return '+';
+  case 0x58: return '\n';         // keypad Enter
+  }
+  return 0;
+}
+
+static int
+was_down(const uchar *rep, uchar u)
+{
+  for (int i = 2; i < 8; i++)
+    if (rep[i] == u)
+      return 1;
+  return 0;
+}
+
+void
+gmmos_hid_report(struct gmmos_hidkeys *k, const uchar *boot)
+{
+  uchar mods = boot[0];
+
+  for (int i = 2; i < 8; i++) {
+    uchar u = boot[i];
+    int c;
+
+    if (u < 4 || was_down(k->prev, u))
+      continue;
+    if (u < 0x39)
+      c = (mods & MOD_SHIFT) ? shifted[u] : plain[u];
+    else
+      c = special(u);
+    if (c == 0)
+      continue;
+    if ((mods & MOD_CTRL) && c < KBD_SPECIAL) {
+      if (c >= 'a' && c <= 'z')      c = c - 'a' + 1;
+      else if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') c = c - 'A' + 1;
+      else continue;
+    }
+    if (k->qt - k->qh < (int)NELEM(k->q))
+      k->q[k->qt++ % NELEM(k->q)] = c;
+  }
+  memmove(k->prev, boot, 8);
+}
+
+int
+gmmos_hid_next(struct gmmos_hidkeys *k)
+{
+  if (k->qh == k->qt)
+    return 0;
+  return k->q[k->qh++ % NELEM(k->q)];
+}
diff --git a/kernel/gmmos/i2c.c b/kernel/gmmos/i2c.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..82f11e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/gmmos/i2c.c
@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+//
+// GMMOS's I2C keyboards: kernel/acpi/i2c_hid.c with everything but reading a
+// keyboard's input reports taken out.
+//
+// No ACPI -- the firmware's AML cannot run on a dead kernel, so the devices
+// are the ones the live driver found at boot (i2c_hid_keyboards). No power
+// commands, no reset, no report descriptor: the device is already on and was
+// already described. No interrupt: the pin is read when the device has one,
+// otherwise the input register is read every few milliseconds regardless.
+// And the DesignWare transfer is read-only, since an input report is a plain
+// read with no register write before it.
+
+#include "core/types.h"
+#include "core/defs.h"
+#include "dev/hid.h"
+#include "gmmos/gmmos.h"
+
+#define IC_TAR              0x04
+#define IC_DATA_CMD         0x10
+#define IC_RAW_INTR_STAT    0x34
+#define IC_CLR_INTR         0x40
+#define IC_CLR_TX_ABRT      0x54
+#define IC_CLR_STOP_DET     0x60
+#define IC_ENABLE           0x6C
+#define IC_TXFLR            0x74
+#define IC_RXFLR            0x78
+#define IC_ENABLE_STATUS    0x9C
+
+#define CMD_READ            (1 << 8)
+#define CMD_STOP            (1 << 9)
+#define INTR_TX_ABRT        (1 << 6)
+#define INTR_STOP_DET       (1 << 9)
+
+#define AMD_PIN_STS         (1u << 16)
+
+#define NKBD 4
+
+static struct gmmos_i2c_kbd kb[NKBD];
+static int nkb, turn;
+static uchar buf[4096];
+static struct gmmos_hidkeys keys;
+
+static uint32
+rd(struct gmmos_i2c_kbd *d, int reg)
+{
+  return d->regs[reg / 4];
+}
+
+static void
+wr(struct gmmos_i2c_kbd *d, int reg, uint32 v)
+{
+  d->regs[reg / 4] = v;
+}
+
+static int
+enable(struct gmmos_i2c_kbd *d, int on)
+{
+  for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
+    wr(d, IC_ENABLE, on);
+    if ((rd(d, IC_ENABLE_STATUS) & 1) == (uint32)on)
+      return 0;
+    microdelay(25);
+  }
+  return -1;
+}
+
+// n bytes from the device. Disabling the controller first also abandons
+// whatever transfer the live driver had going when the kernel died.
+static int
+read_bytes(struct gmmos_i2c_kbd *d, uchar *r, int n)
+{
+  int sent = 0, got = 0, spin;
+
+  if (enable(d, 0) < 0)
+    return -1;
+  wr(d, IC_TAR, d->addr);
+  rd(d, IC_CLR_INTR);
+  if (enable(d, 1) < 0)
+    return -1;
+
+  for (spin = 0; got < n; spin++) {
+    if (rd(d, IC_RAW_INTR_STAT) & INTR_TX_ABRT)
+      goto abort;
+    while (got < n && rd(d, IC_RXFLR) > 0)
+      r[got++] = rd(d, IC_DATA_CMD);
+    while (sent < n && (int)rd(d, IC_TXFLR) < d->txdepth &&
+           sent - got < d->rxdepth) {
+      wr(d, IC_DATA_CMD, CMD_READ | (sent == n - 1 ? CMD_STOP : 0));
+      sent++;
+    }
+    if (spin > 20000)
+      goto abort;
+    microdelay(10);
+  }
+  for (spin = 0; !(rd(d, IC_RAW_INTR_STAT) & INTR_STOP_DET); spin++) {
+    if (spin > 2000)
+      goto abort;
+    microdelay(10);
+  }
+  rd(d, IC_CLR_STOP_DET);
+  enable(d, 0);
+  return 0;
+
+abort:
+  rd(d, IC_CLR_TX_ABRT);
+  rd(d, IC_CLR_INTR);
+  enable(d, 0);
+  return -1;
+}
+
+static int
+probe(void)
+{
+  nkb = i2c_hid_keyboards(kb, NKBD);
+  for (int i = 0; i < nkb; i++)
+    if (kb[i].maxin > sizeof(buf))
+      kb[i].maxin = sizeof(buf);
+  return nkb > 0;
+}
+
+static int
+poll(void)
+{
+  int k = gmmos_hid_next(&keys);
+  if (k)
+    return k;
+
+  // GMMOS polls every millisecond; a blind read is a whole report's worth of
+  // bus time, so a device with no pin is read every fourth time.
+  for (int i = 0; i < nkb; i++) {
+    struct gmmos_i2c_kbd *d = &kb[i];
+    if (d->pin) {
+      int high = (*d->pin & AMD_PIN_STS) != 0;
+      if (high == d->active_low)
+        continue;
+    } else if (turn++ % 4) {
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (read_bytes(d, buf, d->maxin) < 0)
+      continue;
+    int len = buf[0] | (buf[1] << 8);
+    uchar boot[8];
+    if (len > 2 && len <= (int)d->maxin &&
+        hid_boot_report(d->hid, buf + 2, len - 2, boot))
+      gmmos_hid_report(&keys, boot);
+  }
+  return gmmos_hid_next(&keys);
+}
+
+const struct gmmos_kbd gmmos_i2c = {
+  .name  = "I2C",
+  .probe = probe,
+  .poll  = poll,
+};