Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:47:22 -0300 From: Renato Botelho <rbgarga@gmail.com> To: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Hedley <freebsd-current@chrishedley.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Subject: Re: Can't use USB keyboard during boot menu Message-ID: <747dc8f31002230747u7fbe5030y2d0c869d5db94a0a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <179b97fb1002230728l4294916cs6b4b9a18b18f044a@mail.gmail.com> References: <747dc8f31002220835g481b0baeqb1d6df32a79b7da2@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002222231100.98337@teapot.cbhnet> <747dc8f31002230318v384e0259mcfddbf137c0d5057@mail.gmail.com> <4B83D821.6000207@icyb.net.ua> <179b97fb1002230728l4294916cs6b4b9a18b18f044a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote: >> on 23/02/2010 13:18 Renato Botelho said the following: >>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Chris Hedley >>> <freebsd-current@chrishedley.com> wrote: >> [snip] >>>> Do you have USB legacy support enabled in your BIOS? I'm not sure if >>>> there's an option for the loader to use USB devices natively, but the BIOS's >>>> legacy option where it provides AT/PS2 emulation is probably the easiest way >>>> to get the keyboard working. >>> >>> Yes, I do, but it seems to be a regression on FreeBSD itself, I had this problem >>> in the past and I checked the same things i need to check in the past again and >>> everything is fine. >> >> A more precise way to state that would be "a regression in FreeBSD boot/loader". >> I think that you are referring to the issue that was fixed by r189017. >> It might be worthwhile investigating what was done in that revision and what >> happened in sys/boot code since then. >> >> One possibility is that your BIOS uses memory above 1MB for USB emulation, but >> doesn't mark that memory as used in system memory map. In that case that memory >> could be overwritten by the loader. If that's true then the blame is on the BIOS. >> Alternatively, our code might be parsing the system memory map incorrectly. >> But I am just making wild guesses here. >> > > I don't know if it is at all related, but this commit has caused > problems for me booting at least one of my machines: > > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/sys/boot/i386/zfsboot/zfsboot.c?r1=199714&r2=200309 > > Commit message: > > Revision 200309 - (view) (annotate) - [select for diffs] > Modified Wed Dec 9 20:36:56 2009 UTC (2 months, 2 weeks ago) by jhb > File length: 24893 byte(s) > Diff to previous 199714 > - Port bios_getmem() from libi386 to {gpt,}zfsboot() and use it to > safely allocate a heap region above 1MB. This enables {gpt,}zfsboot() > to allocate much larger buffers than before. > - Use a larger buffer (1MB instead of 128K) for temporary ZFS buffers. This > allows more reliable reading of compressed files in a raidz/raidz2 pool. > > Submitted by: Matt Reimer mattjreimer of gmail > MFC after: 1 week > > Renato, are you booting ZFS? Nope, UFS. I'll try to find another USB keyboard to test -- Renato Botelhohelp
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