Subject: Re: Detecting zs keyboard
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/14/2000 17:25:44
> I've been thinking about changing the way the keyboard/mouse are
> configured so instead of hardwiring them to a particular zs instance,
> have them check for the `keyboard:' OBP property and fail to attach
> if it does not exist. That way we can wildcard all the kbd/ms/zstty
> device nodes.
I don't like the prospect. Why?
Because it makes it impossible to hook a keyboard up to a normal serial
port with level-shifting electronics and then proceed to configure it
as and use it as a keyboard. (Yes, I have done this.)
It also makes it impossible to use the level-shifting electronics in
the other direction to use the keyboard and mouse ports as serial
lines, a la the FOUR_TTYS config the sun3 has.
Unless of course there would be a way for the config file to override
the autodetection either way, in which case I withdraw my objection.
der Mouse
mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
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