Subject: Re: external (serial) keyboard for jornadas
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/09/2004 04:18:41
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 19:11:08 +0400, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:

> I've got an HP External Keyboard for Jornada series of H/PCs (covered
> by hpcsh and hpcarm ports).  It's a dumb serial device that talks at
> 9600 sending make/break codes.
> 
> I want to support it under NetBSD/hpc*.
[...]
> My first idea is to have a config like this:
> 
>     scif0 at shb0		# serial port
>     hpextkbd0 at scif0	# provides wskbd attachment
>     wskbd* at hpextkbd0 mux 1	# persists even if keyboard is unplugged
> 				# so autorepeat settings &c is preserved

Oh, that is bogus.  But, fortunately autoconf(8) can attach real
devices under pseudo-devices, so that seems to address my problem.

SY, Uwe
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