linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH]X86:reboot.c Add some dmi entries to pci_reboot_dmi

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Message-ID: <AANLkTiliIp3QiIoMBx0cwsu-komxUbye-JLwRq_IN3n7@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 Jun 2010 20:06:33 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	"Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]X86:reboot.c Add some dmi entries to pci_reboot_dmi_table.

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 07:47:17PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote:
>> > That's pretty infuriating. The ACPI-provided definition doesn't work,
>> > and there's no ACPI mechanism for expressing the more complex cf9
>> > behaviour. Windows doesn't appear to special case this, so we're
>> > probably left trying to figure out why the keyboard controller method
>> > doesn't work. Sigh.
>>
>> Do these Macs even have a PC keyboard controller? A recent thread on
>> PS/2 keyboard/mouse controller probing suggests they may not..
>
> Possibly an SMM trap...
>
>> Justin, what happens if you try the simple outb(6, 0xcf9) test program
>> multiple times, does that do anything?
>
> Huh. That might work, yes. Windows does the ACPI write, an i8042 write,
> the ACPI write, another i8042 write and then gives up. If that happens
> sufficiently quickly, this might get us somewhere. Justin, can you try:

If that's the sequence Windows is using then I'm thinking that's
likely what we should be doing as well..
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