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Date:      Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:42:58 +0100
From:      Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 atkbdc.4 src/sys/dev/kbd atkbdc.c
Message-ID:  <1112895778.82439.9.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200504071715.j37HFAdE064344@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200504071715.j37HFAdE064344@repoman.freebsd.org>

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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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