Re: [BISECTED] tpm CLKRUN breaks PS/2 keyboard and touchpad on Braswell system

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Tue Dec 19 2017 - 15:21:02 EST


On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 03:04:32PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:

> > That makes it a BIOS bug, not a chipset bug, and we shouldn't be
> > trying to fix it like this in Linux.
> >
> > Based on the original discussion I always thought this was an Intel
> > chipset bug and applies to all cases.
>
> It would not be first time when some BIOS issues are circumvented in the
> kernel.

Yes, but we don't circumvent BIOS bugs by detecting the chipset type,
we look for the buggy BIOS.

Jason