From: "andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] setting up a differnet keyboard
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:11:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14ec7b180807171211q53c28e18j1c42b47c3ff88b3b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <487F96EB.4010906@ntlworld.com>
>> I think you need to add the map to the kernel, as a root file so that
>> boot could find it before reaching the file server.
>>
>
> In which case, this doesn't seem to be a very practical mechanism. Wouldn't
> it be beter to attach to the server and then do the kbmap() stuff ??
not when you need to type your password at the console and that
password contains non-ascii characters. I believe this is the original
reason kbmap() was added in the boot code (by Francisco Ballesteros,
if my memory is correct).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-17 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-15 19:47 Robert Hibberdine
2008-07-15 19:59 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-07-16 20:46 ` Robert Hibberdine
2008-07-16 22:00 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-07-17 19:00 ` Robert Hibberdine
2008-07-17 19:11 ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2008-07-17 21:05 ` Robert Hibberdine
2008-07-17 19:12 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-17 21:12 ` Robert Hibberdine
2008-07-16 22:21 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-07-17 21:22 erik quanstrom
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