Re: Amiga, serial and SYSRQ

Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-05-19T20:09:42Z

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.

[1] https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Keymap_Library#Keyboard_Layout

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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