[PATCH v10 fixup 0/2] ASUS Transformer EC: SL101 keyboard event/response fixes
From: Florian Krischer
Date: Mon Sep 21 2026 - 14:37:11 EST
Hi,
I tested the v10 ASUS Transformer EC series on a physical ASUS Eee Pad
Slider SL101 while bringing up its built-in sliding keyboard.
The EC probes successfully as:
Model : ASUS-EP102-DOCK
FW version : SL101-0202
Config format : ECFG-0001
HW version : PCBA-EP102
and the KBC child creates an AT Raw Set 2 serio keyboard, but v10-style
behavior does not complete atkbd initialization on the SL101.
Real-hardware tracing exposed three details:
1. The SL101 EC event window at 0x6a uses the 8-byte SMBus block reads
found in ASUS's downstream driver. The generic 32-byte event read
loses the keyboard command-response path on this device.
2. Keyboard command replies can be valid OBF-only packets without
KEY/KBC set. Non-AUX, non-SMI/SCI OBF responses therefore need to be
routed to keyboard serio0 so PS/2 ACKs reach atkbd.
3. The observed keyboard reset response is:
03 09 fa aa
where 03 counts the following status + payload bytes, 09 is status,
fa is the PS/2 ACK and aa is BAT success. v9's data[0] - 1 payload
count matches this framing. v10's data[0] - 2 drops the BAT byte.
The fix keeps v10's upper-bound check while restoring data[0] - 1.
With these fixes and the SL101 EC DT node at 0x19/0x1b, Linux 6.18.45
boots through RAM-only kexec and the physical sliding keyboard works.
The two patches in this fixup set are intended to be folded into v10
patches 2/7 and 3/7 respectively, rather than merged as a competing
driver series.
The dependent Tegra SL101 DT patch is prepared separately and should be
submitted after/with the EC binding dependency.
Hardware:
ASUS Eee Pad Slider SL101
EC model ASUS-EP102-DOCK
EC firmware SL101-0202
Validation:
- physical keyboard PASS on real SL101 hardware
- cleaned MFD and serio objects compile successfully
- cleaned SL101 DTB compiles successfully
- checkpatch: 0 errors, 0 warnings
Florian Krischer (2):
mfd: asus-transformer-ec: use 8-byte event reads on SL101
input: serio: asus-transformer-ec: fix keyboard response framing
drivers/mfd/asus-transformer-ec.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
drivers/input/serio/asus-transformer-ec-kbc.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
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