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??
Don't understand.

Currently, the alternate driver services maps.
I'd like to get rid of it. THere's also a user level
(usb) driver that could be modified to operate
on cons(3) to translate keys (i.e. to implement
the keymaps without putting the burden in the
kernel).  That was the proposal.

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I oppose that usage of keys. The user can change the keyboard mapping
using an application. For password prompt, I think that this part of
the boot process should be stored in a shell script, perhaps stored in
a virtual disk inside the kernel image. That is IHMO needed anyway, so
that the startup process can be customized without recompiling the
kernel.

Ramon
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