On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > I am all for this - APUS not having Linux keycodes yet is not an issue, > > > > it > > > > will keep Amiga keycodes, right? > > > > > > I don't know. Should APUS start using Linux keycodes too? > > > > > > I hope it's not the same as using PC/AT keycodes for everything, since we > > > tried > > > that on m68k ages ago and it didn't work out at all, so we reverted and > > > sent > > > the PC/AT keycodes with an old Sojuz into the Sun :-) > > > > It sure sounds like the old PC/AT keycodes game to me, the way people keep > > refering to it as 'i386 keycodes'... Are you sure that Sojuz wasn't > > destined to MIR? > > > > As I recall the problem was with Amiga keyboards, right? What exactly > > didn't work? > > IIRC, the main problem was that Amiga keyboards have some keys that do not > exist on PC keyboards. > > Of course these days you can just map the good old Amiga keys to Windows keys > :-) > > But I have to check my mail archive to be 100% sure...
For those who want to read the (long) discussion we had in June 1996: http://home.tvd.be/cr26864/Linux/m68k/keycodes.mail.gz Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds