On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 10:08:10AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
Dear SeaBIOS folks,
coreboots board status repository has some SeaBIOS warnings, and I believe the keyboard doesn’t work in that case.
$ git grep 'Timeout at i8042_flush' origin/master -- origin/master:amd/lamar/4.0-9540-gae5ab60/2015-04-30T02:12:19Z/coreboot_console.txt:WARNING - Timeout at i8042_flush:71!
I don't think that warning is a problem - it generally indicates that a ps2 port isn't present. So, I suspect most of these boards lack the ps2 port.
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I also experience this sometimes on a Lenovo X60, when I load the SeaBIOS ELF file from GRUB with the commands below.
> chainloader (cbfsdisk)/img/seabios > bootEvery time, the keyboard doesn’t work – on the Lenovo X60 it’s connected over the PS/2 port – the error message `Timeout at i8042_flush:71!` can be seen.
Note, that it’s unlikely to be a timing issue, as the keyboard works in the GRUB payload *before*.
Any idea, what causes the problem, and is there a way to fix it?
I don't have much help. The message appears after 16 bytes are read from the port and the port still indcates data is available. I can't think of any valid situation where that would occur.
Is the problem reproducible?
-Kevin