Commitable R3000Z Patch!

John-Mark Gurney gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu
Thu Nov 11 10:40:42 PST 2004


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 at 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.

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