the following patch was just integrated into master: commit cc2e8ec8e1da449915789fe13cc645f23b94669c Author: Mathias Krause mathias.krause@secunet.com Date: Wed Dec 14 08:40:48 2011 +0100
kbd: wait longer for self-test on keyboard reset
Some keyboards take pretty long to respond to a reset command, some even delay the ACK to the command. To make the keyboard driver more robust, increase the timeout for this special command. Also do an interface test after the self-test to ensure the keyboard is functioning properly.
Another point is to reenable the keyboard *after* the scancode was set, not before. We also set the system bit when enabling the keyboard because this seems to be what older operating systems do expect.
One of the problematic keyboards, which will work with this patch applied, is the DELL RT7D20. Without the patch an overly optimistic operating system, read Linux 2.4, will not recognise the keyboard because coreboot didn't fully initialize it.
Change-Id: I28c8e05bdde61f71b7de084c96bc2447c1b9575e Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause mathias.krause@secunet.com
Reviewed-By: Patrick Georgi patrick@georgi-clan.de at Wed Dec 21 16:25:20 2011, giving +2 See http://review.coreboot.org/486 for details.
-gerrit