Bug#35649: SPARC boot lacking standard keyboard Support

[Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>]

Phillip R. Jaenke wrote:
> <snippage>
> Argh, sorry about that HORRID formatting.. had to do raw telnet to get
> the headers correct; I broke LILO on this machine again. :(
> 
> Anyways, quick clarification on this bux.
> 
> Basically, the SPARC boot-floppies do NOT have standard keyboard
> support; only Sun keyboard. There is no generic 'QWERTY' mapping. 
> 
> For those of you unfamiliar with SPARC hardware, there's two ugly
> ducklings, the SPARCengine Ultra AX and Ultra AXi. Low-cost UltraSPARCs
> for OEM integration. They have PS/2 ports. When ordered in bulk, they
> don't come with a Sun keyboard. You have to provide your own.
> 
> Upon selecting ANY Sun keyboard, the PS/2 keyboard will no longer work,
> making installation impossible. I was able to step through the
> installation to make it work, but I had to select a keymap by hand after
> rebooting. I used the i386/qwerty/us map, which seems to have worked. 
> 
> The easy fix that i can see is simply to add the US QWERTY map in case
> of lack of Sun keyboard. The bug is against the SPARC boot-floppies /
> bootable CD version that's current as of 31/3/1999 in the slink tree,
> BTW.

Is there a way to detect a PS/2 style keyboard connection (how kernel is
detecting it) ?  This way we could be able to provide either i386 compatible
keymaps or Sun ones.

Do we need to provide other PS/2 style layouts (azerty, ...) ?  Is the Ultra
AX supporting all PS/2 keyboards ?

And what about the mouse ? Is it still /dev/sunmouse or /dev/psaux ?

Thanks in advance.

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