Re: Bug#85629: keymap for RiscPC

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl writes:
> You mean that the hardware is the same but the initialization
> sets one up in scancode set 1 and the other in scancode set 2?

The keyboard hardware is the same, but what is at the end of the
keyboard cable in the machine is different.  On a PC, the i8042
does the conversion from whatever the keyboard is using to whatever
the system software wants.  We don't have this layer.

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