Re: Keyboard layout in GRUB (Was: On the road to the next release: testing the installer)

[Josselin Poiret]

Hi Romain,

Romain <romain@rgarbage.fr> writes:

> IIRC, grub doesn't take the keymap into account unless the `at_keyboard` 
> module is loaded. It is not the case at the moment.
> Also there seems to be an incompatibility between this module and some laptop 
> keyboards (for example I have a Thinkpad X220 with libreboot/seabios payload 
> and the keyboard stopped working after loading this module).
> [...]
> Even in the BIOS case, as far as I understood the code, the grub image 
> installer function doesn't have access to `bootloader-configuration` data. I 
> think that passing it down to this function would require some changes in the 
> way the bootloader is installed. But I might have overseen something, that I 
> why I was hoping for someone knowledgeable to jump in the discussion :)

No, you're right, that's the kind of refactoring I was thinking about.
It's not conceptually hard but kind of annoying to do.  Same for the
at_keyboard module, although I'm wondering how the current situation
works for you then.

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret

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