Re: Commitable R3000Z Patch!

From: Astrodog (astrodog_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/11/04

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    Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:09:10 -0600
    To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
    
    

    I think you actually need the device, for the keyboard on the machine
    to work. Its just the testing that breaks in this case. I'm not
    certain. Like I said, this has mostly come out of a desire on my part,
    to no longer maintain a fork that consists of 2 lines of code.

    --- Harrison Grundy

    On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:40:40 -0800, John-Mark Gurney
    <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote:
    > Astrodog wrote this message on Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:48 -0600:
    > > Any hint will do, honestly. Just altering the patch to reflect the
    > > change will work. I'd like to automate it by detecting the mobile
    > > nforce3 chipsets, but I don't even know where to start with that yet.
    > > Any suggestions?
    >
    > Why don't you fix the real problem, which is that atkbdc_configure is
    > called from atkbd_configure even when the device is disabled? Why not
    > fix atkbd_configure to just bail out if the reousrce is disabled?
    >
    >
    >
    > > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:31:14 -0800, Brooks Davis
    > > <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
    > > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:55:20AM -0800, Astrodog wrote:
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > > The patch is located at
    > > > > http://evogaming.il.us.tveps.net/~astrodog/atkbdc.patch testing was
    > > > > quite limited, but essentally, if you set hint.atkbd.0.disabled to 1,
    > > > > it disables the test. I suppose it could be renamed to any number of
    > > > > things, the code is a whole 2 lines, and is quite obvious. I'm gonna
    > > > > wait to see if it makes -CURRENT in the next day or so, so I don't end
    > > > > up with people grabbing ISOs from me if I don't have to (Snapshots
    > > > > servers are your freind). Automatic detection code to follow in the
    > > > > next day or so. This was tested on a Compaq 3004US, and it solved the
    > > > > reboot problem. I also tested on a dual opteron 240 machine, and when
    > > > > the hint is not set, it has no effect. I'm going to double-post to
    > > > > freebsd-current in hopes of getting it committed sooner, so all of us
    > > > > 3000Z-base laptop owners can have our fun with FreeBSD.
    > > >
    > > > Do you really have to use this hint? You're changing the meaning of
    > > > only one disabled flag which we're trying to make consistant. If that's
    > > > all you can use at that point, we'll live, but it seems ugly.
    >
    > --
    > John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579
    >
    > "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
    >
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