Re: Updates

[Dominik K. <dom...@un...>]

On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 10:29:59PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:

> I'm still working on Vojtechs stuff. The driver/char/keybaord.c code looks
> like its needds lots of fixing.

Yes.  I ran in to a design defect in the keytables code: you can´t specify
alternate sequences, which is quite important for 8-bit mode. If you look
at the DEC keyboard tables you will find that the function keys and numeric
keypad keys send CSI or SS3 as prefix with is different depending on whether
you are in 7 or 8 bit mode.  I also found a couple of errors in the default
keymap wrt to F1..F5: we are sending sequences i can not find in any doc
from DEC...  Also we might have a bit of a problem implementing backarrow
key mode and some other DEC keyboard related modes without changing the
keyboard driver.  It that is worth the effort is yet another question.

Dominik
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