Re: Posible off-topic

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

> Scene 3: (PC keyboard + Serial Display: whithout VGA device)
[snip]..

> My question is the next:
> 
> What driver can I use to manage Scene 3?
> 
> I can run /sbin/login program over Serial Display
> (using serial-console kernel support), but I can not
> use the PC keyboard, because kernel thinks that we
> are on Scene 1, so input must be from serial line and
> I need input from PC keyboard.

With the current tree you can't get around this. With the work we have
been doing you can :-) This makes sense especially on handheld device
which lack a keyboard but still has a visible display. So with the tree we
have it is possible to 

1) Use a regular keyboard without a VT. This is what you want to do. The
   device you want to use to do this /dev/input/eventX. One of them will
   be your keyboard.  

2) Framebuffer without keyboard/VT. Common case for emebedded devices.
   Same thing, you use /dev/fb directly without having to have a VT
   console. A VT console makes no since without a keyboard.