Re: Bug#85629: keymap for RiscPC

[Richard Atterer <deb-arm@list.atterer.net>]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 12:12:14PM +0100, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk wrote:
> All the above are bodges, not a fixes.
> 
> Bodges will come back to fester later. Always fix problems properly
> so it never re-appears. Don't introduce new problems that can be
> easily worked around.

Just my thoughts - however, radically changing everything for 2.5 is
not a fix, instead it introduces *yet*another* complication!

We're stuck with this mapping, changing it is no use: In practice,
you'd end up maintaining duplicate maps to support both 2.4 and 2.5,
not my idea of an improvement.

> Andries has the best solution by far to date.

Hm, how about a version of loadkeys which if told to load keycodes
from a file named "foo.XXX.kmap", looks for a lowlevel-to-lowlevel map
in "/usr/share/keymaps/codemap.XXX"?

For example, when you tell loadkeys to load "uk.pc.kmap", it will read
the data, then map the PC scancodes to RiscPC scancodes using
/usr/share/keymaps/codemap.pc, and use the resulting keybindings.

Cheers,

  Richard

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