Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:31:37 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Tom <tom@sdf.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Subject: Re: Serial Keyboards Message-ID: <XFMail.980323183137.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980323173354.17474A-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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On 24-Mar-98 Tom wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Warner Losh wrote: > >> >> OK. I've been looking at ways to get a serial keyboard that I picked > > What is a serial keyboard? What is it for? All keyboards I have seen in the last N years are serial. Most of them are either 1200 or 9600 boaud, no parity, 8bit data, 1.5 bits start/stop. What our correspondent intends to say is RS-232C (?) keyboard. PC keyboards are TTL level only. > ... >> Looking at syscons.c, pcvt/* and sio.c makes me think that this won't >> be easy or simple to do, but that it is possible to do it with enough >> hacking.... > > Well, since it is serial, working with the serial console code is > probably closest. Except that he probably would like to have stdout and stderr (and console?) still go to the VGA board. Why would anyone want that, is a good question. A NEW PC KB is $15. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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