Re: Protocol wskbd vs. Protocol standard

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:54:37AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> wiz@ wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 11:40:40PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > > > so that explains a bit why we don't default to wskbd everywhere. I'd
> > > > still like to know why we do have a separate wskbd protocol at all.
> > > 
> > > Because all OpenBSD MD kernel keyboard drivers provide "rawmap"s
> > > which return PC XT scancodes for X servers?
> > 
> > And NetBSD does what?
> 
> NetBSD's MD kernel keyboard drivers only return "native" keycodes,
> and xsrc/external/mit/xf86-input-keyboard/dist/src/bsd_KbdMap.c
> has many MD maps that translate from the "native" map to PC XT code.
> 
> Several Tier II ports still lack translation tables in bsd_KbdMap.c
> and requires manual xmodmap(1) for workaround.
> (there are few active users on such ports anyway)

Thank you for the explanation!
 Thomas