Bug#249164: installation report on DECstation (mipsel)
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 08:11:40PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> DEC is the only arch. that has only one keyboard (atm) so it has a
> default entry in dec-kbd.c. Found a bug in the deflt keyboard handling.
>
> Try the following fix to kbd-chooser.c and report if it works:
I'll try, but it will take some time.
> As to being offered DEC, USB and AT keyboards: are USB and AT possible
> on decstations ? (eg can you get PCI cards for decstations?) if not, can
> I identify decstations by subarch, and eliminate those options?
Not on DECstations, but on other mipsel subarchitectures. DECstations
only have LK201/LK401/LK501 keyboards (which for now use the same
keymap), but the SWARM can have USB keyboard and mouse. The
AT-keyboard support is not really used for now (but will be needed
for other subarchitectures like the DDB5074).
> It appears from the latest 2.6.6 kernel sources that you can identify
> lkkbd modules in 2.6 kernels. What is the current status of 2.6 on
> decstations and MIPS in general?
On DECstations 2.6 does not work at all, on other subarchitectures it
is partially useable. The lkkbd module is written by somebody working
on VAXen (which use the same type of keyboard) and who uses it to run
a DEC LK201 on a PC :-).
Regards,
Karsten
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