Re: console-data: Broken powermac keymaps
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 12:09:59PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > The mac/ keymaps do not work on powermacs; keycode 0 is 'a', not keycode 90.
> > I attach a diff, but I assume it is not appropriate, because these keymaps
> > have been in use for a while - are they valid on mac68k?
>
> IIRC keycode 0 is not a valid keycode even though it is used by a
> few m68k systems (there's been long rants on this on linux-kernel but the
> m68k people finally gave in and remapped keycode 0 to some unused one).
> I picked the 0 -> 90 remapping as keycode 90 didn't appear to be used. Do
> the Powermacs have trouble with that choice?
Well, no, but the kernel does not implement it! Not on powerpc, at
least. Where is the code for this?
Dan
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