Re: 2.6.8-rc1-mm4: allow-i8042-register-location-override-2.patch

From: Sean Neakums
Date: Fri Sep 17 2004 - 15:39:31 EST


Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> writes:

> On Saturday 11 September 2004 4:27 pm, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>> On Saturday 11 September 2004 04:30 pm, Sean Neakums wrote:
>> > > Input: Add ACPI-based i8042 keyboard and aux controller enumeration;
>> > > can be disabled by passing i8042.noacpi as a boot parameter.
>> >
>> > On a whim I decided to turn on ACPI, only to discover that my keyboard
>> > no longer worked.  Passing i8042.noacpi=1 makes it work again.
>> > Attached please find boot messages with and without the boot
>> > parameter.  Inlined below is a diff of the two.
>>
>> Bjorn has a patch that would use defaults if ports/IRQ are not specified
>> in the DSDT table, which should help in your case I think.
>
> Thanks much for testing this, Sean. Can you try the attached patch,
> please?

With this patch applied and no extra boot parameters, my keyboard works.

> --- 2.6.9-rc1-mm4-bh1/drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h.orig 2004-09-07 14:41:42.000000000 -0600
> +++ 2.6.9-rc1-mm4-bh1/drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h 2004-09-07 14:51:06.000000000 -0600
> @@ -155,9 +155,23 @@
> acpi_device_name(device), acpi_device_bid(device),
> kbd_res.port1, kbd_res.port2, kbd_res.irq);
>
> - i8042_data_reg = kbd_res.port1;
> - i8042_command_reg = kbd_res.port2;
> - i8042_kbd_irq = kbd_res.irq;
> + if (kbd_res.port1)
> + i8042_data_reg = kbd_res.port1;
> + else
> + printk(KERN_WARNING "i8042: bogus data port address in %s _CRS, defaulting to 0x%x\n",
> + acpi_device_bid(device), i8042_data_reg);
> +
> + if (kbd_res.port2)
> + i8042_command_reg = kbd_res.port2;
> + else
> + printk(KERN_WARNING "i8042: bogus command port address in %s _CRS, defaulting to 0x%x\n",
> + acpi_device_bid(device), i8042_command_reg);
> +
> + if (kbd_res.irq)
> + i8042_kbd_irq = kbd_res.irq;
> + else
> + printk(KERN_WARNING "i8042: bogus IRQ in %s _CRS, defaulting to %d\n",
> + acpi_device_bid(device), i8042_kbd_irq);
>
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -176,7 +190,11 @@
> printk("i8042: ACPI %s [%s] at irq %d\n",
> acpi_device_name(device), acpi_device_bid(device), aux_res.irq);
>
> - i8042_aux_irq = aux_res.irq;
> + if (aux_res.irq)
> + i8042_aux_irq = aux_res.irq;
> + else
> + printk(KERN_WARNING "i8042: bogus IRQ in %s _CRS, defaulting to %d\n",
> + acpi_device_bid(device), i8042_aux_irq);
>
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -201,7 +219,7 @@
> {
> int result;
>
> - if (i8042_noacpi) {
> + if (acpi_disabled || i8042_noacpi) {
> printk("i8042: ACPI detection disabled\n");
> return 0;
> }
-
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