[Arm-netbook] Polishing keyboard support

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at lkcl.net
Sun Jul 31 18:05:42 BST 2016


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On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi Luke and all,
>
> I am polishing a new push for keyboard, mainly adding support for
> modifiers (ctrl, shift, alt, GUI) -- this makes the keyboard fully
> useable under any reasonable OS.
>
> While I was at it, I ran a full check on my AZERTY keyboard's layout,
> and found two keys in its matrix which the EC SW maps to 0x00 ('no
> key') in the current code. Namely:
>
>         row 1, column 5: keypad "+"
>
>         row f, column 4: keyboard "DEL"
>
> Keypad "+" is present in the SW matrix, but at row 1, column 1 (which on
> my keyboard maps to no key).
>
> Keyboard "DEL" does not seem to be mapped in the SW matrix.

 unf.  must have missed it.

> Luke, could you check the QWERTY keyboard matrix position for those two
> keys? I'd like to make sure whether we can use the same SW matrix for
> both keyboards or whether we need two.

 i can't!  everything's on a shipping container, on the way over from
holland!  it'll be here in a couple of weeks.  i'll take a look at the
keyboard membrane (when i can find it in amongst *25* boxes....)



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