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From: pacman@kosh•dhis.org
To: benh@kernel•crashing.org (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Pegasos i8042 broken again
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:32:27 -0500 (GMT+5)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101010173227.2158.qmail@kosh.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1286696147.2463.499.camel@pasglop>

Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> 
> Those things really suck. They absolutely refuse to fix their FW for
> reasons I never quite managed to figure out.

The last time around, they did release a firmware patch (pegasos-dts-20071018)
to fix up the device tree enough to satisfy the kernel. Now that the kernel
has become dissatisfied again, maybe another patch will appear.

> 
> At this stage, I'd say the best is to add yet another pegasos workaround
> in prom_init that adds the missing compatible property.

This one would be more complex than the other fixes in prom_init. It's not
just the compatible property that's missing. The 8042 node in the device tree
has no children.

-- 
Alan Curry

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-10 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-10  1:37 Pegasos i8042 broken again pacman
2010-10-10  7:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-10 12:26   ` Gerhard Pircher
2010-10-10 17:32   ` pacman [this message]
2011-04-04 22:26   ` Gabriel Paubert
2011-04-04 22:28     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-04-04 22:49       ` Gabriel Paubert
2011-04-04 23:02     ` pacman

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