Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:57:31 -0400 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/RFT] Remove polling timer from i8042 |
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On 7/27/06, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:29:04AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Hi, > > > > OK, I had it in works for quite some time and Dave's talk in Ottawa > > made me finish it ;) > > Good work. > > However I believe you need to test the AUX IRQ in this case before you > use it, otherwise you'll have a lot of people with non-working keyboards > (the input queue is shared), and probably also non-working PCI cards > (BIOSes like to assign IRQ12 to PCI if no mouse is detected by the > BIOS). >
What do you mean by testing AUX IRQ? Use I8042_CMD_AUX_LOOP to see if interrupt fires off? The new code releases IRQ if it can't find a working AUX port...
> You'll see whether this test is necessary if a lot of people report > problems without i8042.noaux. > > That can only be seen after extensive testing on a lot of machines, > though. Fortunately 386's and 486's are more or less extinct now, and > with them a lot of the weirder keyboard controllers. >
I think I will forward the patch to Andrew and we will see how bad it is. It works on couple of boxes here but I don't have a lot of hardware to test on...
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