Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:56:13 +0200 | | From | Sascha Wilde <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6 kernel won't reboot on AMD system - 8042 problem? |
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:14:08AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Sorry for breaking the thread.... > > Sascha Wilde wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:27:11PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 01:31:13AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > On Thursday 05 August 2004 07:48 am, David N. Welton wrote: > > > > > By putting a series of 'crashme/reboot' calls into the kernel, I > > > > > narrowed a possibl cause of it down to this bit of code in > > > > > drivers/input/serio.c:753 > > [...] > > > > Could you please try the patch below? I am interested in tests both > > > > with and without keyboard/mouse. The main idea is to leave ports that > > > > have been disabled by BIOS alone... The patch compiles but otherwise > > > > untested. Against 2.6.7. > > > > > > Well, this has a problem - plugging a mouse later will never work, as > > > the interface will be disabled by the BIOS if a mouse is not present at > > > boot. > > > > Is PS/2 supposed to support hotpluging at all? I guess it's not, but I > > may be wrong... > > Yes it is, at least with newer (or rather not ancient) hardware...
well, so the patch obviously can't be a final solution...
> From what I can see 2.4 does not have this problem because before > toucing the control register it tries to reset the keyboard and > stops if there is not response. I think this also menas that 2.4 > does not support keyboard hot-plugging. In 2.6 we do not make any > assumptions on what kind of hardware attached to a port (KBD, mouse) > so reset test probably won't work... > > I wonder if simply resetting controller (by passing i8042.reset) > would help in your case?
It helps in a sense, as rebooting works with this option -- unfortunately when passing i8042.reset on boottime the keyboard is dead, so it doesn't help.
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