Re: Bug#85629: keymap for RiscPC

[Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>]

>I'm not sure what you mean here.  If one plugs a PS/2 keyboard to a RiscPC,
>one should be able to use the same keymaps as on a PC, isn't it ?  Or did I
>miss some specificity ?

No, unfortunately not.  The RiscPC kernel does an internal remapping of 
scancodes in the keyboard driver, so although the keyboard is physically 
identical to a PC one, it needs a different map.  This is completely nuts, of 
course, but there doesn't seem to be much prospect of changing it.

p.