From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759394Ab0EMUPz (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2010 16:15:55 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:33727 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753148Ab0EMUPw (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2010 16:15:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 21:15:32 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Linus Torvalds , Bastien Nocera , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-input@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.34-rc6 Message-ID: <20100513201532.GA20473@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20100513075728.GF30110@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1273762051.2308.4671.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20100513155031.GA22238@core.coreip.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100513155031.GA22238@core.coreip.homeip.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@cavan.codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 08:50:31AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Indeed most of them do just work. My Dell T110 for example boots just > fine and it only has USB, no PS/2 ports. However there is a rather > important difference I think - these other boxes are supposed to work > with multiple versions of Windows which, as far as I know, do probe for > the i8042. Apple only supports bootcamp on certain BIOSes and does not > really expect anything to touch these ports. If you're not using bootcamp then you're booting via EFI, and in that case I think it's probably reasonable to require that the keyboard be provided via PNP or flagged in the XDST. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org