Re: 2.6 kernel won't reboot on AMD system - 8042 problem?

David N. Welton
2004-08-13T10:14:45Z

Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> All in all, 0x65 is what one would expect to be in the CTR register
> after boot on a normal machine without a PS/2 mouse installed.

Sure, if you search google on the results from the 20 command, you see a
lot of things like 0x64 0x64 0x75 0x74 and similar values.

> 0x9a doesn't make sense _AT_ALL_, though!

Right.

> And there comes a thought ...
>
> In i8042_command(), we do this:
>
> if (!retval)
> for (i = 0; i < ((command >> 8) & 0xf); i++) {
> if ((retval = i8042_wait_read())) break;
> if (i8042_read_status() & I8042_STR_AUXDATA)
> param[i] = ~i8042_read_data();
> else
> param[i] = i8042_read_data();
> dbg("%02x <- i8042 (return)", param[i]);
> }
>
> to distinguish whether a response came from the AUX interface instead of
> the KBD or controller itself. We _negate_ the value if the AUXDATA bit is
> set in he status register.

Oh, yep, there we go... that's what's switching it around.

> So I think what happens is that the controller sets the AUXDATA bit for
> some reason (or at least we read a status byte with the AUXDATA bit
> set), which negates the value when we read the initial CTR.

> Then when we write that nonsensical CTR back to the controller on
> reboot, we're screwed, since the i8042 is the more important CPU in the
> system and can do many nasty things to it. ;)

> Now, the question is, where does that AUXDATA bit come from?

I noticed that the FreeBSD folks attempt to flush both kbd and aux:

http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/dev/kbd/atkbdc.c#L790

I tried doing that like so:

while ((i8042_read_status() & (I8042_STR_OBF | I8042_STR_AUXDATA)) &&
(i++ < I8042_BUFFER_SIZE)) {
data = i8042_read_data();
dbg("%02x <- i8042 (flush, %s)", data,
i8042_read_status() & I8042_STR_AUXDATA ? "aux" : "kbd");
}

with different variations, and it seems as if it will go on reading
forever if you let it. So it keeps reporting AUXDATA as being
present... Hrm...

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David N. Welton
davidw@eidetix.com