From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 9 16:05:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 179D4106564A for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 16:05:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigknife-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f10:75::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEBF48FC17 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 16:05:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 36459B9B0; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 12:05:18 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Kaho Toshikazu Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 11:53:25 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110714-p17; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201206301349.58930.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> <201207060813.39867.jhb@freebsd.org> <14213.1341617155@elam.kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: <14213.1341617155@elam.kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201207091153.25092.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:05:18 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Matthias Apitz , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky Subject: Re: no keyboard after booting r235646 in laptop FS Amilo D 7830 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:05:19 -0000 On Friday, July 06, 2012 7:25:55 pm Kaho Toshikazu wrote: > Hello, > > John Baldwin wrote: > > > Almost all systems use one of the IDs we do support as a _CID if not a _HID. > > In fact, in this case it likely seems to be a BIOS bug as it used the same > > value for the _CID and _HID. I suspect it is supposed to be using 0303 as its > > _CID. > > I don't think the BIOS should say PNP0303 as a keyboard _CID. > Using _CID may help some systems, but it may not be helpful > for many systems having keyboard probe problem. > I think it's a specification bug made by Microsoft, > same devices connected different type devices should not have > different ID but same ID. Well, my point is that having a _HID and _CID with the same ID is pointless. It really does look like a typo in the BIOS source. > People with this problem can override AML code, > but I don't think it is a bad idea adding other IDs to the list for probing. Adding IDs is cheap, so I'm fine with doing so. -- John Baldwin