[Clfs-support] Keyboard If You Are Going to Boot

Jim Gifford clfs at jg555.com
Mon Aug 31 07:23:21 PDT 2009


John wrote:
>
> In clfs 1.0.0-x86 7.11. Linux-2.6.17.13
> there was an interesting idea of compiling
> the keyboard map into the kernel with
>  
> loadkeys -m [path to keymap] > \
>     drivers/char/defkeymap.c
>  
> This has been exclude from
> clfs 1.1.0-rc1-x86 7.10. Linux-2.6.24.7
>  
> Anyone know why? Was it not successful?
> What is the alternative now?
>  
> There is a ticket #56 in Track but I do
> not understand the reasoning.
>  
> John
> John Walton
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You don't need the keymap built into the kernel, kbd handles all those 
functions, without modifying the kernel.
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