The keyboard driver attaches on boot but no input is read unless the kb8042 driver module is unloaded and reloaded.
To integrate this, so that it will be available for OpenSolaris 2008.11 would be very appreciated. Doug McCallum also tested this driver with a HP ZV 5000 laptop and found that it doesn't cause any regression in testing so far.
Work Around
modunload -i `modinfo|awk '/kb8042/ {print$1}'`
devfsadm -i kb8042
I found that, during the grub phase of the boot, if the kernel line was modified to say have
a -v, and then b(oot) the keyboard works fine