Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 16:56:31 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 atkbdc.4 src/sys/dev/kbd atkbdc.c Message-ID: <20050407235631.GC24453@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <200504071403.28492.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200504071715.j37HFAdE064344@repoman.freebsd.org> <200504071403.28492.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 02:03:27PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday 07 April 2005 01:15 pm, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > sobomax 2005-04-07 17:15:10 UTC > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > 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. > > > > PR: 67745 > > Submitted by: Jung-uk Kim jkim at niksun.com > > MFC after: 1 days > > Umm, this PR is closed because there's already a hint flag (0x8) to do this. > Does the hint flag not work and did you ask Jung-uk if the patch is still > necessary before you committed this? It would be nice if someone would comment on the email I sent to freebsd-current if we can add a "save keyboard" mode to the bootloader which would set hw.atkbdc.kbd0.flags to 0x9. Wouldn't that solve all the keyboard issues? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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