Re: sparc64: Tadpole SPARCbook 6500 (listed untested) - RAMDISK dmesg + notes

Miod Vallat <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Otherwise everything attaches: CPU, all 4GB, both CardBus and PCMCIA slots,
> USB (a Kingston stick enumerates and works), the DVD-ROM, and the internal
> keyboard, which works without any Tadpole-specific driver. That last point may
> be worth noting for anyone else with one of these, since the SPARCbook keyboard
> is a known problem under stock Solaris.

Regarding the keyboard, the 8042 (keyboard controller) clone used by
Tadpole does not perform scan code translation and is "stuck" with a
fixed scan code set (#2 for SPARCLE and Viper, #3 for UltraBook and your
SPARCbook 6500), and the keyboard driver simply needs to be told not to
attempt to change the scan code set. This has been added to the OpenBSD
pckbc(4) keyboard driver in the 7.4 release.
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