Re: Bug#85629: please add acorn/ps2.uk keymap

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:35:33PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >* this seems to imply that the ARM port needs to distinguish between
> >sub-archs, just as ppc and 68k
> 
> Yes.  As far as keyboard maps are concerned, there are only two flavours: most 
> ARM machines use PC keyboards, but a few use this "acorn" mapping.  You detect 
> them by the `Hardware' field in /proc/cpuinfo; it looks like this:
> 
> Processor       : Intel StrongARM-110 rev 4 (v4l)
> BogoMIPS        : 214.63
> Hardware        : Chalice-CATS
> 
> The machines that need the "acorn" keymap will have Hardware: Acorn-RiscPC, 
> Acorn-A5000 or Acorn-Archimedes.  The others that are supported by Debian, 
> which need the PC keymap, are Chalice-CATS and Rebel-NetWinder.

I'll only distinguish the special case of these machines needing
keymap translation, against the others: they will be 'arm/riscpc', and
the other ones will stay as 'arm':

  if ($arch eq 'arm') {
    my $subarch;
    my $isRiscPc = (system ("grep", "^Hardware *: Acorn-", "/proc/cpuinfo") == 0);

    $arch = 'arm/riscpc' if $isRiscPc;
  }


> >A detailed description of the keymap will be necessary anyway; see
> >/usr/share/debhelper/dh-consoledata/templates/keymaps for the
> >definition of the console-data/keymap/* questions.
> 
> I don't personally have any information beyond what's in the kmap file.  I've 
> asked on the debian-arm mailing list to see if there are any volunteers to 
> provide the details.

I still don't have a good description of this keymap, sent to me as
"acorn/ps2.uk", which I'll include as "riscpc/riscpc-uk.kmap" unless
someone objects.

Should it really be "acorn" and not "riscpc" ?  I may be intoducing
confusion here...

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