[coreboot] ASUS P2B Keyboard failure
Mark Marshall
mark.marshall at csr.com
Mon Jan 18 15:52:47 CET 2010
Hi.
I've been using coreboot and SeaBIOS with an ASUS P2B for some time now,
and recently I've noticed that the keyboard has stopped working.
It took me some time to track down what was the problem, but running
superiotool on the system after it had booted soon indicated the
problem. It appears that the keyboard sub-function of the winbond
superio was not being enabled. This is probably the reason that I
didn't spot this problem sooner - it seems that if I boot with the
factory BIOS and then chip-swap to coreboot and reboot things work as
expected.
I've had a closer look at the Winbond data sheet and the initial value
of this register seems to depend on an external PIO connected to the
winbond chip. I've also noted that in the coreboot source the
pnp_enable function only disables functions - it doesn't enable them.
Is there a good reason for this?
Should I submit a patch that always writes to the enable register, or
should I add something to the superIO initialization that sets this
register?
Is my mainboard broken?
Any help greatly appreciated.
MM
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