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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Disable i8042 checks on Intel Apple Macs
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:05:31PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 01/25/2010 02:30 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >>
> >> We should never read from port 0x60 unless bit 1 in port 0x64 is set.
> >> Do we do that?
> >
> > No, we don't read of OBF is 0. Incidentially 0xff has it set ;) so we do
> > try reading data port.
> >
>
> What do you do after reading the data port? In the case of the A20
> code, we do dummy reads and loop until the data port drains (0xff of
> course means it never drains...)
>

/*
* i8042_flush() flushes all data that may be in the keyboard and mouse
* buffers
* of the i8042 down the toilet.
*/

static int i8042_flush(void)
{
unsigned long flags;
unsigned char data, str;
int i = 0;

spin_lock_irqsave(&i8042_lock, flags);

while (((str = i8042_read_status()) & I8042_STR_OBF) && (i < I8042_BUFFER_SIZE)) {
udelay(50);
data = i8042_read_data();
i++;
dbg("%02x <- i8042 (flush, %s)", data,
str & I8042_STR_AUXDATA ? "aux" : "kbd");
}

spin_unlock_irqrestore(&i8042_lock, flags);

return i;
}

...

static int i8042_controller_check(void)
{
if (i8042_flush() == I8042_BUFFER_SIZE) {
printk(KERN_ERR "i8042.c: No controller found.\n");
return -ENODEV;
}

return 0;
}

--
Dmitry


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