From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.34-rc6 Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 10:30:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20100513075728.GF30110@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20100513160117.GB22238@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20100513171639.GA23708@core.coreip.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:36827 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754643Ab0EMRcg (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2010 13:32:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100513171639.GA23708@core.coreip.homeip.net> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Bastien Nocera On Thu, 13 May 2010, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > I think on the newer hardware PNP (or rather ACPI mapped onto PNP) usually > matches the reality. Dmitry, you're just making things up. I have in front of me a Core i5-670. You can't get much newer than that. And yes, it has a PS/2 connector at the back. And lookie here: [ 1.756777] PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. [ 1.760645] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [ 1.762087] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 [ 1.763591] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice so let it go. You're wrong. PS/2 is a legacy device, and exactly like the legacy IO memory region in 0xa000-0xffff (or the motherboard IO port region 0x00-0xff) it may not be mentioned by the BIOS tables. But it's still there. This is also why I think it _would_ be acceptable to say that if you boot from EFI, you have to find the PnP devices. The whole (and only, as far as I know) point of EFI was that "legacy-free" thing. Linus