Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

[Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>]

> * what sub-architectures are there for each arch ? My guess: m68k ->
> atari, amiga, sun, next(, mac) ; ppc -> mac, RS/6000

Debian/m68k currently supports the following subarchs:

  amiga, atari, mac, mvme

The kernel runs on a few more more or less reliably (hp300, apollo,
q40), but there's no wide support for those machines yet. sun3 won't
be supported by Debian that soon, because it has a different page size
(8k) and thus needs different ELF binaries :-(

> * how may I caracterize each of these archs ? IIRC I was told about
> some field in a /proc file, but I'd need more precise info, ie.
> exact strings/regexps to match

Here's the standard script:

	machine=""
	case `awk '$1 == "Model:" { print $2 }' /proc/hardware` in
		Atari)
			machine=atari
			;;
		Amiga)
			machine=amiga
			;;
		Macintosh)
			machine=mac
			;;
		Motorola) # MVME
			machine=mvme
			;;
	esac

(One could also use a complicated sed expression instead of awk, but
awk is nice and clear :-)

> * what to those subarches use for a set keymap ?  It may be obvious
> 	for some, as we have the amiga, atari, mac, and sun sets of
> 	keyboards in /usr/share/keymaps/, but as there are several
> 	generations of machines for some sub-arches, I'd like to know all
> 	that is is to know in this field.

AFAIK (I'm sure for Amiga and Atari) all those generations do use the
same keymaps. And --again AFAIK-- mvme uses PC keysmaps, but I'm not
sure about this...

Roman