From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bjorn Helgaas Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:57:41 +0000 Subject: Re: KDB blindly reads keyboard port Message-Id: <200609291057.41529.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> List-Id: References: <14425.1159496284@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <14425.1159496284@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Keith Owens Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 28 September 2006 20:18, Keith Owens wrote: > I have never been a big fan of ACPI, having seen too many broken ACPI > tables. But if that is what you want ... There's always broken firmware, but I think on the whole, it's better than just assuming that tomorrow's system will be the same as yesterday's. I think a big reason for broken tables is the fact that ignore many of them, so the breakage is never discovered. > Bjorn, could you apply my previous patch anyway, boot your problem > system with kdb_skip_keyboard, drop into KDB and > 'md4c1 acpi_kbd_controller_present'. That will quickly confirm if acpi > is detecting the absence of the keyboard on your system. My system says: acpi_parse_fadt: acpi_kbd_controller_present 0