Re: Updates

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

> > 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.

I ported over the bulk of Vojtech work. It's in CVS. I didn't modified
keyboard.c and console.c and vt.c with Vojtech work. We have to work on
cleaning up the keyboard events to console mapping. We have to break it up
into peices.