On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:48:36PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 01:40:41PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > * Janusz Krzysztofik <[email protected]> [100427 18:09]: > > > The patch introduces a serio driver that supports a keyboard serial port > > > found > > > on the Amstrad Delta videophone board. > > > > > > After initializing the hardware, the driver reads its input data from a > > > buffer > > > filled in by the board FIQ (Fast Interrupt Request) handler. > > > > > > Standard AT keyboard driver (atkbd) will be used on top of the serio > > > layer for > > > handling the E3 keyboard (called mailboard) connected to the port. Since > > > the > > > device generated scancodes differ from what the atkbd expects, a custom > > > key > > > code to scan code table must be loaded from userspace for the keyboard to > > > be > > > useable. > > What's the rationale for this approach? There's no requirement for the > atkbd driver to be used for all keyboards. It seems very obscure (and > backward) way to do things. > > Why not implement the serio driver for the IO level, and a separate > keyboard driver which can handle the protocol and interpret the > scancodes?
Because it is AT-like keyboard with messed up scancodes, it responds to our probes as a regular keyboard so we can't auto-select proper keymap. If you were to connect a standard PS/2 keyboard to E3 port it would work without any special keymap. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
