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From: Patrick Georgi <patrick@georgi-clan.de>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Using GRUB2 with CoreBoot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) 2/4: Keyboard controller
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:53:42 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fmaur6$kp5$2@ger.gmane.org> (raw)

Hi,

second installement of my mini-series:

The AT keyboard driver assumes that the keyboard is set to scancode set 
#1. It seems like many keyboards use set #2 (or even #3) by default now, 
and some 8042-emulating chipsets don't enable translation (to #1) by 
default. The BIOS then enables it to support the legacy compatibility the 
PC architecture is famous for - but CoreBoot doesn't.

http://osdever.net/ has some information on programming the 8042 (without 
BIOS calls), incl. how to configure the scancode set you want to have.

Also, 0x01 is the scancode for ESC. I didn't look if there's a special 
case for escapes, but a simple "\e" instead of "\0" at that code point 
might help.

Regards,
Patrick




             reply	other threads:[~2008-01-12 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-12 17:53 Patrick Georgi [this message]
2008-01-15 18:06 ` Using GRUB2 with CoreBoot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) 2/4: Keyboard controller Robert Millan
2008-01-15 18:36   ` Patrick Georgi
2008-01-15 18:43     ` Robert Millan
2008-01-16 13:46 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-16 16:21   ` Robert Millan
2008-01-19 11:44     ` Robert Millan

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