EP80579 coreboot+seabios > keyboard init issue - coreboot

28 Jul 2009


      Hello Kevin and others,
I am having troubles with coreboot+seabios. Seabios is not able to 
initialize the keyboard. If I use
coreboot + filo I get the console input without any troubles.
However, coreboot + seabios the console input is not operating properly. 
Looking at the log file
I can see the following :
init keyboard
i8042_flush
i8042 flushed ff (status=ff)
i8042 flushed ff (status=ff)
i8042 flushed ff (status=ff)
i8042 flushed ff (status=ff)
i8042 flushed ff (status=ff)
i8042 flushed ff (status=ff)
i8042 flushed ff (status=ff)
i8042 flushed ff (status=ff)
i8042 flushed ff (status=ff)
i8042 flushed ff (status=ff)
i8042 flushed ff (status=ff)
i8042 flushed ff (status=ff)
i8042 flushed ff (status=ff)
i8042 flushed ff (status=ff)
i8042 flushed ff (status=ff)
i8042 flushed ff (status=ff)
i8042 timeout on flush
Googling the last line I've found this :
http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2009-January/044504.html
"
You appear not to have an i8042 controller (io ports 0x60/0x64).
Which means you wont be able to use the keyboard.
"
Is this true??*
*Thank you
**