Yeah please do a fixup for the boot wrapper. Or, if you have trouble, go into the firmware and type "nvedit", add these lines;
" /isa/8042" find-device " 8042" encode-string device-type (then ctrl-c to exit and nvstore to run it on next reboot. Try it without the patch first, on the firmware console, just to be sure I got it right, because I can't test it here) You don't need to patch Linux at all. In fact for silly things like this I would recommend against it :) -- Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations Segher Boessenkool wrote: >> As of 2.6.22 the kernel doesn't recognize the i8042 keyboard/mouse >> controller >> on the PegasosPPC. This is because of a feature/bug in the OF device >> tree: >> the "device_type" attribute is an empty string instead of "8042" as the >> kernel expects. This patch (against 2.6.22.1) adds a secondary >> detection >> which looks for a device whose *name* is "8042" if there is no device >> whose >> *type* is "8042". >> >> Signed-off-by: Alan Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c.orig 2007-07-24 >> 19:04:17.000000000 -0500 >> +++ arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c 2007-07-24 19:06:36.000000000 >> -0500 >> @@ -487,6 +487,10 @@ int check_legacy_ioport(unsigned long ba >> switch(base_port) { >> case I8042_DATA_REG: >> np = of_find_node_by_type(NULL, "8042"); >> + /* Pegasos has no device_type on its 8042 node, look for the >> + * name instead */ >> + if (!np) >> + np = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, "8042"); > > [I know it already got merged, I'm behind on mail, but anyway...] > > Could board-specific quirks like this please always include a > check for that board? Or, even better, do a fixup in the > bootwrapper. > > In this case the workaround won't likely trigger on the wrong > boards, but "just a little bit" more dangerous workarounds > _will_, and the law of big numbers works against us... > > > Segher > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-dev mailing list > Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev