[coreboot] ASUS P2B Keyboard failure

[Joseph Smith]

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:52:47 +0000, Mark Marshall <mark.marshall at csr.com>
wrote:
> 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?
> 
You may also want to check for IRQ conflicts...

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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org