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SubjectRe: [PATCH] powerpc: Pegasos keyboard detection
Yeah please do a fixup for the boot wrapper.

Or, if you have trouble, go into the firmware and type "nvedit", add
these lines;

" /isa/8042" find-device
" 8042" encode-string device-type

(then ctrl-c to exit and nvstore to run it on next reboot. Try it without
the patch first, on the firmware console, just to be sure I got it right,
because I can't test it here)

You don't need to patch Linux at all. In fact for silly things like this
I would recommend against it :)

--
Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations




Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> As of 2.6.22 the kernel doesn't recognize the i8042 keyboard/mouse
>> controller
>> on the PegasosPPC. This is because of a feature/bug in the OF device
>> tree:
>> the "device_type" attribute is an empty string instead of "8042" as the
>> kernel expects. This patch (against 2.6.22.1) adds a secondary
>> detection
>> which looks for a device whose *name* is "8042" if there is no device
>> whose
>> *type* is "8042".
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alan Curry <pacman@world.std.com>
>>
>> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c.orig 2007-07-24
>> 19:04:17.000000000 -0500
>> +++ arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c 2007-07-24 19:06:36.000000000
>> -0500
>> @@ -487,6 +487,10 @@ int check_legacy_ioport(unsigned long ba
>> switch(base_port) {
>> case I8042_DATA_REG:
>> np = of_find_node_by_type(NULL, "8042");
>> + /* Pegasos has no device_type on its 8042 node, look for the
>> + * name instead */
>> + if (!np)
>> + np = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, "8042");
>
> [I know it already got merged, I'm behind on mail, but anyway...]
>
> Could board-specific quirks like this please always include a
> check for that board? Or, even better, do a fixup in the
> bootwrapper.
>
> In this case the workaround won't likely trigger on the wrong
> boards, but "just a little bit" more dangerous workarounds
> _will_, and the law of big numbers works against us...
>
>
> Segher
>
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