Subject: Re: sparc keyboard info
To: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
From: Chuck Silvers <chs@catapent.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/06/1995 01:35:35
> The keyboard (and mouse) connects through one of the on-board serial devices
> (it's `zs1' on all sparcs). In addition to reading scan-codes from the
> keyboard, you can also send it a handfull of commands (see kbd.[ch] for
> those). In case you want to use a foreign as the machine's console input,
> I suspect the hardest problem will be to convince the PROM to co-operate.
I meant lower level protocol, like RS232 vs RS423 (which is what
the DEC keyboard uses). Someone else told me a little bit ago
that it's RS232 at 1200 baud. Now if I could just get the pinout
of the connector, I'd be set...
-Chuck