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Date:      Thu, 07 Apr 2005 21:22:01 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com>
To:        Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:    Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 atkbdc.4 src/sys/dev/kbd	atkbdc.c
Message-ID:  <42557A49.8080203@portaone.com>
In-Reply-To: <1112895778.82439.9.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
References:  <200504071715.j37HFAdE064344@repoman.freebsd.org> <1112895778.82439.9.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>

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No, it doesn't help. At least not for the ZV5000.

-Maxim

Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 17:15 +0000, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> 
>>sobomax     2005-04-07 17:15:10 UTC
> 
> 
>>  Modified files:
>>    share/man/man4       atkbdc.4 
>>    sys/dev/kbd          atkbdc.c 
>>  Log:
>>  Provide a new tunable hw.atkbdc.broken_kit_cmd, which if set to 1
>>  instructs the driver to avoid using Keyboard Interface Test command.
>>  This command causes problems with some non-compliant hardware, resulting
>>  in machine being abruptly powered down early in the boot process.
>>  
>>  Particularly it's known that HP ZV5000 and Compaq R3000Z notebooks
>>  are affected by this problem.
>>  
>>  Due to popularity of those models this patch is good MFC5.4 candidate.
> 
> 
> Doesn't the patch committed by jhb in 
>   1.44      +2 -1      src/sys/dev/kbd/atkbd.c
>   1.7       +2 -1      src/sys/dev/kbd/atkbdreg.h
>   1.25      +5 -0      src/share/man/man4/atkbd.4
> fix it for you?  It pretty much does exactly what your patch does and
> seemed to fix it for people in the referenced PR...
> 
> 
>> PR:             67745
>> Submitted by:   Jung-uk Kim jkim at niksun.com
> 
> 
> Gavin
> 
> 
> 



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