Re: Using GRUB2 with CoreBoot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) 2/4: Keyboard controller

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 05:53:42PM +0000, Patrick Georgi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> second installement of my mini-series:
> 
> The AT keyboard driver assumes that the keyboard is set to scancode set 
> #1. It seems like many keyboards use set #2 (or even #3) by default now, 
> and some 8042-emulating chipsets don't enable translation (to #1) by 
> default. The BIOS then enables it to support the legacy compatibility the 
> PC architecture is famous for - but CoreBoot doesn't.
> 
> http://osdever.net/ has some information on programming the 8042 (without 
> BIOS calls), incl. how to configure the scancode set you want to have.
> 
> Also, 0x01 is the scancode for ESC. I didn't look if there's a special 
> case for escapes, but a simple "\e" instead of "\0" at that code point 
> might help.

Is there a way to reproduce this problem without specific hardware?  (with
qemu or so)

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Robert Millan

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