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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:11:14 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, mj@feral.com
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD kernel doesn't boot on FUJITSU PRIMERGY RX200 S5 server
Message-ID:  <201004220911.14743.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4BD01F50.6070403@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4BCD5A7B.2070505@FreeBSD.org> <4BCF5AC1.8080608@FreeBSD.org> <4BD01F50.6070403@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thursday 22 April 2010 6:05:04 am Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > There is already a code to detect non-existing AT keyboard and avoid 
> > attaching atkbd to it. The code is i386-only at the moment, I am trying 
> > to figure out how to modify it so that it works on amd64 as well.
> 
> Looks like this huge delay is caused by the inb() being astonishingly 
> slow, which is not factored by the timeout routines. Reading keyboard 
> status port once takes about 0.003s! I am not sure if it's common 
> behaviour of the platform, or something specific to this particular 
> model. Do you know by any chance?

Well, many BIOSes trigger an SMI# when doing inb/outb to the keyboard ports so 
they can emulate a PS/2 keyboard when a USB keyboard is inserted.  Do you have 
any BIOS options related to the USB legacy compat?  I know of the Nehalem 
systems I've seen they have a separate option for controlling port 60/64 
emulation which we leave disabled by default.

-- 
John Baldwin



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