Re: Bug#85629: Important fix for console-common 0.7.1 on arm!!!
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:46:54PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote:
> i.e., after the "Hardware", it's a tab, not a space...
Nice catch, but lots of bugs/patches end up being lost because they're not
sent to the BTS. Hopefully there are enough people here to prevent that :)
> - Pre-generated keymaps for the RiscPC. NB, other members of the ARM
> family use standard i386 keymaps - I think for the solution to be
> fool-proof, there'd have to be some RiscPC detection code in
> loadkeys, to distinguish between an "arm" and an "arm-riscpc"
> architecture.
IIRC the idea was to minimize the work, given that in early 2.5 the riscpc
will switch to standard keycodes. Now if it turns out to be really
unusable...
Maybe a simple shell wrapper around loadkeys (possibly on arm only) would do
the trick without touching the real code ?
> - IMHO, console-data should be architecture-dependent and should only
> contain the keymaps for the relevant architecture(s). One less way
> to mix things up...
This can be addressed by splitting -data into several packages, one being
-data-riscpc, which could be "arch: arm". The installation procedure should
then select the right package.
For those who wonder, the original idea of splitting the package was to
address its size, and making packages like -data-latin, -data-cyrillic,
-data-ethiopic, etc., but the support for this is far from complete in the
config script, although I tried to keep that in mind when writing the
current code.
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