ukbd probe order regression

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Wednesday 03 February 2010 10:47:56 Peter Jeremy wrote:
> [Based on a thread in -stable]
> 
> I am trying to upgrade a Dell GX620 from FreeBSD 7.1 to a recent
> FreeBSD 8-stable and have run into a regression in the ukbd probe
> order.  This box has no PS/2 ports and therefore I use a USB
> keyboard (and have removed atkbdc, atkbd and kbdmux from my kernel).
> All relevant USB devices are compiled in.
> 
> In 7.x, ukbd probes before the kernel mounts root.  In 8.x, ukbd
> probes after the kernel mounts root (it actually probes asynchronously
> after the "Enter full pathname of shell..." prompt).  (This bit me
> badly because I managed to screw up my root disk name and got
> prompted with 'mountroot>' but had no keyboard).
> 
> The GX620 is a P4 system with an ICH7 chipse.  The keyboard is a Dell
> SK-8115 connected directly to a motherboard port (I've tried several
> different USB ports without improvement).  I've also tried a Dell
> SK-8135 (which is the "multimedia" variant and has a builtin hub)
> which behaves the same.
> 
> I've uploaded full details as follows:
> FreeBSD 7.x verbose dmesg:  http://pastebin.ca/1776339
> FreeBSD 8.x verbose dmesg:  http://pastebin.ca/1776359
> "pciconf -lv" (same in 7 & 8):  http://pastebin.ca/1776363
> 
> The output from 'usbdevs -v' on FreeBSD 7 is:
> Controller /dev/usb0:
> addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000),
>  Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
> 

There has been some patches to ukbd.c recently. Try to apply those first:

fetch -o /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/input/ukbd.c  
"http://p4db.freebsd.org/fileDownLoad.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb/input/ukbd.c&REV=43"

--HPS