misc/73223: [PATCH] Add USB keyboard option to Beastie menu

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

>Number:         73223
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] Add USB keyboard option to Beastie menu
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 28 01:10:22 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Joe Marcus Clarke
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
FreeBSD, Inc.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD shumai.marcuscom.com 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #22: Sun Oct 24 17:53:00 EDT 2004 marcus at shumai.marcuscom.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SHUMAI i386


	
>Description:
FreeBSD currently does not support installations on a machine without PS/2
ports.  That is, if you try to boot 5.3-RC1 on a machine with only USB
keyboard support, the keyboard will stop working once the kernel boots.
This is due to an over-zealous atkbd driver.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to use a USB keyboard to install FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 (or 4.10 for that matter)
>Fix:

On obrien's request (or challenge), attached is a patch that adds a USB
keyboard option to the Beastie boot menu.  Selecting this option boots with
the hint.atkbd.0.flags set to 0x1.  This enables the USB keyboard in
sysinstall.

It would be good to get this into 5.3, as the machine onto which I installed
FreeBSD was a Dell OptiPlex GX280, and there are other "mainstream"
computers out there without PS/2 ports.

The idea to set this flag was given by Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova at fbsd.ru>
and Johan Larsson <johan at ludd.luth.se>.

--- beastie.4th.diff begins here ---
--- beastie.4th.orig	Wed Oct 27 13:57:48 2004
+++ beastie.4th	Wed Oct 27 13:57:43 2004
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 
 variable bootkey
 variable bootacpikey
+variable bootusbkey
 variable bootsafekey
 variable bootverbosekey
 variable bootsinglekey
@@ -155,6 +156,7 @@
 	else
 		-2 bootacpikey !
 	then
+	printmenuitem ."  Boot FreeBSD with USB keyboard" bootusbkey !
 	printmenuitem ."  Boot FreeBSD in Safe Mode" bootsafekey !
 	printmenuitem ."  Boot FreeBSD in single user mode" bootsinglekey !
 	printmenuitem ."  Boot FreeBSD with verbose logging" bootverbosekey !
@@ -221,6 +223,10 @@
 				s" YES" s" acpi_load" setenv
 				s" 0" s" hint.acpi.0.disabled" setenv
 			then
+			0 boot
+		then
+		dup bootusbkey @ = if
+			s" 0x1" s" hint.atkbd.0.flags" setenv
 			0 boot
 		then
 		dup bootsafekey @ = if
--- beastie.4th.diff ends here ---


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