Re: 2.6.24-git15 Keyboard Issue?

Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-07T17:46:35Z

Chris,

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Chris Holvenstot wrote:
> Thomas -
>
> I hope that, from at least my perspective, your question is rhetorical.

Yeah. The non rhetorical one was directed to Jiri. :)

> I am fully willing to publicly admit that I don't have a clue. About
> much of anything. I will even admit that until prompted by Jiri
> yesterday I had never even heard of the nohpet directive for the boot
> line.

No problem. At the moment I'm equally clueless :)

> I am willing to do whatever I can to help isolate and or resolve this
> issue, but to do so I need one of you experts to firmly grab hold of
> some portion of my anatomy and guide me in the right direction.

Can you please apply the following patch, boot w/o nohpet and provide
the dmesg output ?

Thanks,
tglx

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
index 429d084..4e98241 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
@@ -375,8 +375,10 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void)
{
unsigned long id;

- if (!is_hpet_capable())
+ if (!is_hpet_capable()) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "HPET not available\n");
return 0;
+ }

hpet_set_mapping();

@@ -392,6 +394,7 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void)
* information and the number of channels
*/
id = hpet_readl(HPET_ID);
+ printk(KERN_INFO "HPET available. ID = %lx\n", id);

#ifdef CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC
/*
@@ -412,6 +415,7 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void)
return 0;

out_nohpet:
+ printk(KERN_INFO "HPET disabled\n");
hpet_clear_mapping();
boot_hpet_disable = 1;
return 0;