Hi.

I'd like to raise the following issue I am having with my
subnotebook for discussion here.  I am not sure how to
really properly fix this, and I'd be happy about your input:

For quite some time now, I have to patch every kernel I use
on my subnotebook to get usb 1.1 (ohci) properly working:
It appears the BIOS of this machine has a bug, and does not do
the HC TakeOver correctly.  Without this[1] patch, ohci-hcd
simply doesn't load, and I am unable to use USB 1.1 devices.
Since the internal wlan card, and my external braille display are both
USB 1.1, this is quite a serious issue for me.

Can you think of some way to properly fix this such that the fix
could go into mainline kernels?  It is rather suboptimal that
I can not use any stock compiled kernels, for instance, when
installing the system from scratch...  This issue is outstanding
at least for a year now, linux-laptop.net has an entry for the XP7250
which explains this problem since somewhere around september 2003 or so.

[1] http://delysid.org/xp7250-usb.patch

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