On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:05:52PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > On 05/27/2010 07:03 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > >On May 27, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Linus Torvalds > ><torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> > >> > >>On Thu, 27 May 2010, Robert Hancock wrote: > >>> > >>>It's highly unlikely that they are incomplete in this respect, as > >>>since I mentioned, Windows would fail to recognize the PS/2 controller > >>>that people would expect to work, which would most likely get > >>>noticed.. > >> > >>Did you miss the part where I actually quoted my own modern Core i5 > >>machine that _does_ have a keyboard controller, and _does_ have a > >>keyboard > >>port, and that does _not_ mention them in the PnP tables? > > > >Except that it _does_. But _our_ ACPI implementation drops all inactive > >devices so our PNP layer does not see your mouse and keyboard ports. > > That's likely true - This was not a guess - I have seen DSDT from Linus' box. That is why I said I'd be happy applying Metthew's patch if our ACPI did not drop inactive devices - it would leave Apple and newer boxes alone while still allowing plugging in keyboard/mouse in boxes that do have i8042 even if BIOS decided to hide it from Windows. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
