Re: Amiga, serial and SYSRQ

Michael Schmitz
2024-05-20T21:03:55Z

Hi Geert,

On 20/05/24 08:09, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 9:22 PM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 19/05/24 21:17, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 9:37 AM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On a serial console, SysRq is BREAK:
>>> s/serial console/virtual console/
>> I meant to write 'serial console' there. You will note that I carefully
>> avoided the topic of sysrq on the virtual consoles because I could find
>> no information on the key combo,
> Right, I got totally confused by your two lines starting with "On",
> incorrectly assuming the first was for virtual consoles, and the second for
> serial consoles...
>
>>> Amiga keyboards do not have a SysRq key. We used to implement it
>>> using SHIFT+ALTGR+HELP in the old drivers/char/amikeyb.c, but that
>>> feature was lost with the transition to drivers/input/keyboard/amikbd.c
>> Thanks - same problem in atakbd.c. What key is 'KEY_102ND'? Does it even
>> exists on our keyboards?
> That is the keycode generated from raw Amiga keycode 0x30?
> According to [1] it is present on some international layouts.

Pity - that's useless for sysrq in the general case then.

Does anyone really need the Help key? Should we make that one return the
sysrq keycode rather?

Cheers,

Michael

>
> [1] https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Keymap_Library#Keyboard_Layout
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>