Re: Pease submit a patch for console-data's arm problem
On Fri 20 Jul, Richard Atterer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:09:55PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > > There are an open, RC bugs against console-data asking for arm
> > > support.
> [snip]
> > As far as I am concerned this bug is already fixed. If anybody knows
> > different, please speak up.
>
> I think it is fixed, at least various changelog entries for
> console-common indicate so [excerpt]:
>
> console-common (0.7) unstable; urgency=medium
> * Added support for detection of 'arm/riscpc' machines, to allow for a
> new "riscpc" family of keymaps.
>
> console-common (0.6) unstable; urgency=high
> * Moved ps2-to-riscpc from /usr/share/debhelper/dh-consoledata/ to
> /usr/share/console/ (and hence from dh-consoledata to console-common).
> * When on a RiscPC machine and trying to install a PC (PS/2) keymap,
> translate it so that it works with the current RiscPC keyboard driver.
>
> console-common (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
> * Include kmap-to-riscpc script from Richard Atterer; install it as
> /usr/share/debhelper/dh-consoledata/ps2-to-riscpc.
>
> However, I haven't been able to upgrade for some time, due to a
> combination of broken RiscPC installation, dying harddisc and having
> too many other things to do... is anybody else successfully using it?
hmm, the keyboard support for riscpc included in the latest experimental
bootfloppies build phil did works OK on a riscpc - is this using/based on
console-common I wonder? If so then yes it's probably working. If not then,
no I haven't tried it yet either.
Wookey
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