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Date:      Sun, 29 Jun 1997 13:18:19 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
Cc:        Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa syscons.c syscons.h 
Message-ID:  <199706291918.NAA13178@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <1074.867607875@critter.dk.tfs.com>
References:  <199706291511.IAA02789@freefall.freebsd.org> <1074.867607875@critter.dk.tfs.com>

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> >  (If we only knew a way to detect ThinkPad 535, we could skip keyboard
> >  reset automatically, but...)
> 
> Why do we need to reset it in the first place ? 

Because at least some older ThinkPad's won't work unless we reset the
keyboard and then set them up to use the different scan-mode setup.
That, and I suspect some machines which have multiple OS's need to have
the hardware set to get rid of any funky re-mapping that may have been
done.



Nate



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