defkeymap making machine useless (was Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

Debate is about keymaps:

 Ok, I created something useful in the meantime. Question is, what to
 do with the new keymap? I can obviously keep it at local patch,
 but...

 PC defkeymap.map makes HTC Dream useless.

 HTC Dream defkeymap.map makes PC useless :-(.

> > Yeah, I wasn't sure how to handle this.  We try to keep the msm/dream
> > stuff in a state that doesn't break other parts of the tree, but there
> > doesn't seem to be support for different keymaps for different
> > devices.
> 
> How it's supposed to work is that you have a specific keyboard driver
> and that emits PC keyboard codes into the core kernel using a
> translation table in your driver.

Of course, Dream does  that.  But that's not _nearly_ enough. Dream
lacks keys such as: esc, arrows, symbols (/;'[]\-=). That means that
for +, you can't press shift-=, you need to press altgr-P.

So yes, mapping keycodes helps (at least you get a-z,0-9), but that's
basically it, and keys it has are not enough to actually type loadkeys
/foo/bar/baz.map :-(.

									Pavel
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