From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39B83F7C.EA7B41FF@student.ethz.ch> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 03:23:08 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Franz Sirl CC: Geert Uytterhoeven , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, linux-apus-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: newer xfree86 4.0.1 patches References: <20000906213248.A3749@suse.de> <5.0.0.19.2.20000907164805.01f19660@mail.munich.netsurf.de> <39B7AFC7.19AF37A1@student.ethz.ch> <00090723415902.31531@enzo.bigblue.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Franz Sirl wrote: > > > - what's the keycode situation in XF3/4 for Apus? > > > > AFAIK it isn't very clean with either, the best bet is still to disable > > Xkb. > > On PPC we can switch the keycodes between ADB and Linux with a sysctl. Linux > keycodes are ~95% compatible with AT keycodes, so XKB will work. That would be great IMHO. > > > - if your developer repository for 2.4 is different from BK > > > linuxppc_2_3, did you integrate your input layer drivers in your trees > > > and plan to submit them for 2.4? > > > > We have a CVS repository at SourceForge. Roman Zippel integrates bitkeeper > > into it, but unfortunately we don't have anyone for the reverse direction. > > How could that be done? > > Via Linus probably, but in this special case we could arrange something. Please post to linux-apus-devel@lists.sourceforge.net what we'd have to do. > > > If you want to keep the current state of affairs I can see in the > > > linuxppc_2_3 tree, there's not much point in using machid.c, AFAICS. On > > > the other hand, if you plan to integrate your input drivers into 2.4, it > > > makes perfect sense. > > > > I think it would be nice, but to be honest I don't fully understand what > > would be involved. > > Actually not much, given the Apus input drivers in the linuxconsole > repository ("ruby") on sourceforge are already functional, I don't know, so I assume not :( > it's simply a matter of copying the files and modifying the configuration > scripts. If you want to continue to support Apus keycodes, you need some > translation code in input/keybdev.c too. Thanks. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/