R3000Z Compat Patch

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 11 November 2004 02:24 pm, Astrodog wrote:
> I'll take a look. In the end, I think an automated solution needs to
> be found... but how to detect these specific motherboards, with this
> issue escapes me at the moment, any thoughts there? Also you might
> want to take a look at the patch I've got going below.

Unfortunately there is no practical way to detect motherboards at this stage 
in the boot.  At least a hint can be documented in the FAQ.  Also, your 
solution wouldn't allow people to actually use the keyboard if they wanted to 
use it. :)

> --- Harrison Grundy
>
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:17:55 -0500, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 November 2004 07:36 am, Astrodog wrote:
> > > Should work either way... I'm having some problems writing it... the
> > > keyboard test seems to happen too early to use kenv() to pull device
> > > hints.
> >
> > Did you see the patch I posted earlier to make a flag in atkbd0 turn this
> > test off?  If so, can you test it?  It's in the PR feedback.  I posted it
> > over a week ago and no one has tested it yet.
> >
> > > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:13:55 -0800 (PST), Neil Short
> > > <neshort at yahoo.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > Mine's an HP.
> > > >
> > > > --- Astrodog <astrodog at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > I'm going to write something mergable, because this
> > > > > is just nuts. ISO
> > > > > URLs coming in the next few hours, along with a
> > > > > diff, assuming the
> > > > > testing is sucessful. I'm using a device hint,
> > > > > hw.compaqr3000z, if I
> > > > > should use another naming convention, lemme know.
> > > > >
> > > > > --- Harrison Grundy
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