From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261813AbVEVOnw (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 May 2005 10:43:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261814AbVEVOnw (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 May 2005 10:43:52 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.194]:30540 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261813AbVEVOnu convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 May 2005 10:43:50 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=ZwIHMmXC38xUNGDgmoWgz8wuhyPKK0FpfLYGJ0x3hRdpkiHQlSSY/0/g6X9Z1EQQxbqr+ckHSueHhxNp2pSWwW8UMxnImIsHsF6C1Dk25+AVjl73O54LY463YA//uPPHJFPNAdGhClbxyFpXpxzTnGyInMcR3ba00VbwZSyym+4= Message-ID: <9e47339105052207431634c341@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 10:43:50 -0400 From: Jon Smirl Reply-To: Jon Smirl To: lkml Subject: keymaps, event interface and multiple keyboards Cc: vojtech@suse.cz, Alan Cox Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm working on keyboard support for Xgl (the OpenGL based accelerated Xserver). X implements it's own keymaps but since this is all new code I can look at using the kernel ones. I haven't been a fan of having two separate systems. Since I have little experience with keyboard support I could use some help in getting the code right. One goal of XGL is to allow multiuser. It does this by using independent framebuffers and the event interface for keyboard/mouse. This all works but it ignores the VT system. Now I'm starting to look at the kernel keymap support. Kernel keymaps are tied to the VT system. There is only one VT system and it is not multiuser. So how do I get support for multiple users (maybe with different keyboards) using kernel keymap? Should keymap support be broken out of the VT code and moved to input? -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com