Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:18:13 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Nicolas Blais <nb_root@videotron.ca> Subject: Re: amd64/67745: boot fails on compaq presario r3000z Message-ID: <200411011518.13026.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20041031061217.GA56606@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200410301940.i9UJeTkY081142@freefall.freebsd.org> <20041031061217.GA56606@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Sunday 31 October 2004 01:12 am, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 07:40:29PM +0000, Nicolas Blais wrote: > > How come the patch exists.... works perfectly.... and isn't being > > commited? > > Because it removes code that does something on other machines. No one > has done a good analysis of why this fixes booting on a few models of > laptops. Thus we don't understand the consequences of this change. We could add a flag to the atkbd driver so that the probe could be turned off via hints. That at least wouldn't require a custom kernel for installing, etc. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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