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Message-ID: <20080902084801.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 08:51:12 -0400
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@...ervon.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Christopher Desjardins <cddesjardins@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Lenovo 3000 N100 i8042 problems
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:43:13AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Sep 2008, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > so the product name both of System and Base Board are different, and
> > apparently the systems differ. Dmitry, what fields would you propose to be
> > put in the DMI matching here? I will do the patch then.
>
> Are you sure you shouldn't be looking at BIOS version, instead?
Unfortunately we can't do "less than" type of comparison on DMI data,
otherwise it would be great solution.
> I don't know
> how the Lenovo N100 series is, but chances are their i8042 is emulated
> inside the ACPI EC, i.e. a firmware upgrade can change the i8042 behaviour.
>
I think this is true for all boxes manufactured in the last 8 years.
> I'd check BIOS versions, and ask people to upgrade to the latest, to see if
> the problem goes away (or changes). Then you will know for sure the best
> approach.
>
Keeping compatibility with the other OS is the safest way so unless
Vista started using active MUX there is probably update to the BIOS
fixing legacy mux mode.
--
Dmitry
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