Re: [PATCH] Unisys pc keyboard new keys patch, kernel 2.4.3

Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-16T06:54:47Z

H. Peter Anvin writes:

> This means you don't have to configure two levels (scancodes ->
> keycodes and keycodes -> keymap); since currently the keycodes are
> keyboard-specific anyway there is no benefit to the two levels.

The medium-raw level ought to be what the X11R6 protocol uses.
Then the keyboard-specific stuff can be removed from XFree86,
and there would be one less mapping to configure.