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From: Fco.J.Ballesteros <nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] getting rid of kernel kbd maps
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Well, to keep (almost? ;-)) all of us happy, we have
F1, F2, ... to activate keymap #1, #2, ...
also we have devkbmap to download/change even
more maps. The reason to have them compiled in
is that I wanted the spanish keymap in the password
prompt (at boot(8) time). The reason to add dynamic
ones is that there're 9fans that strongly asked for it,
IIRC their reason was to debug the addition of more
keymaps.

The plan I suggest is to move what we already have
into the user level keyboard driver (the usb one would
also do it) and remove it from the kernel. But I wouldn't
like to do that if it would not unify what we all do with
keyboards.

So, votes against?
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> We still have (at least) two keyboard drivers, and I
> don't like that much.
>
> Would everybody be happy if

I'm all for it.  Especially if it'll appear in the default Plan 9
distribution on sources, and make it easier for people unfamiliar with
compiling Plan 9 kernels to start using.

Do you have a way of dynamically adding (switching) keyboard support,
or do you have all the keyboard maps compiled in the user-level
program?  Say I wanted to switch from Bulgarian to Spanish keyboards,
do I need to have both compiled in beforehand?

andrey

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