Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 21:11:32 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: haas@willi.lion.de (Christoph Haas) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, haas@willi.lion.de, FreeBSD-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: weird cable Message-ID: <199704141141.VAA27032@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970414131744.29999E-100000@willi> from Christoph Haas at "Apr 14, 97 01:18:50 pm"
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Christoph Haas stands accused of saying: > On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > > > If you want to _interface_ it, then you are going to have to write your > > own keyboard interface driver, and you will need a logic/RS-232 level > > inverter. > > So a SUN uses a simple RS232 interface to attach its keyboard ? Yup, like many sensible workstation vendors, a real, async serial protocol. None of this clocked bidirectional two-wire sync crap 8) I'm not sure what baudrate, as the Sparc driver just reads whatever the firmware, but its 8 bits, no parity, one stop bit as far as I can tell. > > You should be able to get the basic keyboard protocol and keymap from > > the NetBSD/Sparc keyboard driver. > > Yeah, i'll look at it asap. You'll want src/sys/arch/sparc/dev/kbd.c and zs.c, just FYI. > Christoph -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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