Re: Xorg keymap and wskbd keymap

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jun 19, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:

> I'm looking at several sources around Xorg server keyboard driver
> to switch several orphaned wsfb based ports from xfree86 to xorg.
>
> In xsrc/external/mit/xf86-input-keyboard/dist/src/bsd_KbdMap.c
> There are several wskbd keymaps (translating it to atKeymap?),
> like wsUsbMap (ukbd), wsXtMap (pckbd), wsAdbMap (akbd) etc.
>
> If we are going to add more other ports (like dreamcast, newsmips  
> etc),
> do we have to add all machine dependent wskbd keymaps in this file
> as old xfree86 servers have independent keymap sources?

Yes and no. We need to get rid of those MD wsevent codes anyway if we  
ever want keyboard muxes to work properly ( as in - with devices using  
different scancodes on the same mux, like an ADB keyboard and a USB  
keypad. Right now there is no way to tell them apart. )
They should all emit USB scancodes since that seems to cover pretty  
much everything.

> Is there any reason why we don't use wskbd(4)'s WSKBDIO_GETMAP ioctl
> to get keymaps (with modifier) used in kernel?

The Xserver as it works right now would still need to know how to  
interpret them. Or rather, the kbd driver would. The keyboard code  
inherited from xf86 translates everything into something AT-like  
before doing any further processing, that's what these tables are for.

> Or simply we should handle it in xkbcomp symbol files as hpcarm W- 
> ZERO3?
> (I don't know how files in external/mit/xkeyboard-config/dist/symbols
> should be declared though)

Didn't the xorg people declare xkb deprecated a while ago?

have fun
Michael

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