On Tuesday 22 March 2011 17:36, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > Harald, Denys, All, > > On Tuesday 22 March 2011 17:24:09 Harald Becker wrote: > > >> Can we improve Busybox and add those functionalities? Attention: > > >> Modifications at this point probably introduces an incompatibility to > > >> current Busybox versions, ... > > > The best way would be to evolve tovards using data formats > > > and command-line options which are compatible with relevant > > > standard tools. > > > > That would be the loadkeys command and the keyboard table format > > described in the keymaps(5) manual page. ... but that one is an ASCII > > source table that needs complex parsing. That parsing, including dynamic > > table handling, would require a lot of code and data space. I don't > > think that this really hit's the Busybox "keep it small" philosophy. > > What about the following: > - busybox applet that loads binary tables as you suggest > - script in the busybox source that converts an ASCII table into its > binary equivalent > > > The standard tool "loadkeys" has an option "-b" to create the the binary > > key tables required by Busybox. > [--SNIP--] > > The standard tools loadkeys "-b" option is especially designed to create > > binary key tables in the format required by Busybox (see loadkeys manual > > page). > > Sorry, my loadkeys man page does not document '-b': > $ loadkeys --version > loadkeys: (console-tools) 0.2.3
This one has it: # loadkeys --version loadkeys from kbd 1.15 1.12 didn't. So it was added in 1.13-1.15 timeframe -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
