Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.34-rc6
From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu May 13 2010 - 16:16:00 EST
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 08:50:31AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Indeed most of them do just work. My Dell T110 for example boots just
> fine and it only has USB, no PS/2 ports. However there is a rather
> important difference I think - these other boxes are supposed to work
> with multiple versions of Windows which, as far as I know, do probe for
> the i8042. Apple only supports bootcamp on certain BIOSes and does not
> really expect anything to touch these ports.
If you're not using bootcamp then you're booting via EFI, and in that
case I think it's probably reasonable to require that the keyboard be
provided via PNP or flagged in the XDST.
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