From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 23 18:26:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14295 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:26:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fddi.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA14273 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:26:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 5232 invoked from network); 24 Mar 1998 02:31:37 -0000 Received: from localhost.simon-shapiro.org (HELO sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) (@127.0.0.1) by localhost.simon-shapiro.org with SMTP; 24 Mar 1998 02:31:37 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-031798 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:31:37 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Tom Subject: Re: Serial Keyboards Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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