Subject: Re: improving NetBSD
To: Ken Nakata <kenn@eden.rutgers.edu>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/19/1996 15:57:14
> Does your code have an interface, I mean a program interface, not a
> user interface, to install/deinstall a key map on the fly?  I mean,
> without having to rebuild a kernel, or even having to reboot.  I think
> this is very important because then we won't have to make a "special"
> kernel for everyone who wants a new key map.

Actually, what I'd like to see is one keymap in the kernel and a
user-level program to modify the current keymap.  But, I'd like
to see it implemented so that one could copy a source file from
the user-level program onto, for example, src/sys/arch/mac68k/dev/keymap.c,
to compile a new default keymap into their kernel.

Perhaps this is overkill, but after using a Norweigian PC keyboard for a
week, I can understand the frustration that you folks from across the
pond are dealing with (and the Norweigan keyboard is QWERTY, not AZERTY
or something even more different).

-allen

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