On 2004-06-07 itojun@iijlab.net wrote:

> 	hello, i got a new Sony VAIO type U:
> 	http://www.jp.sonystyle.com/Style-a/Product/U/index.html
>
> 	dmesg (with cradle connected) is as below.  one problem when we use
> 	this product without cradle is, it seems that usb connector on the
> 	righthand side of the machine is controlled by ehci, i guess.
> 	without enabling this usb port, i cannot connect USB keyboard when
> 	i'm on the road (don't you think it'll be cooler than carrying
> 	laptops?).
> 	http://www.itojun.org/diary/20040605/vaiou-dmesg-netbsd-20f.txt
>
> 	so question is: what is the status of ehci?  how can i help?


How is your ehci (aka USB 2.0) now?

I have also a VAIO type U and tried to boot 2.0 and current kernels.
It seems to be still not good for ehci like the following:

http://www.nightbreak.org/NetBSD/box/2.0-i386-dmesg-typeu.txt
http://www.nightbreak.org/NetBSD/box/2.99.14-i386-dmesg-typeu.txt

I also tried to use options PCIBIOS_*, some causes boot failure
and go to debugger quickly.


You may already know that you can use USB keyboard and mouse
without cradle (called "port replicator") to use a kernel
which have no USB driver because of BIOS legacy function.
(you can not use any USB device in that case of course...)

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Y. Takizawa
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