[E3-hacking] [RFC][PATCH 4/5] input: serio: add support for Amstrad Delta serial keyboard port

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 04:09:58AM +0100, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote:
> Friday 11 December 2009 03:36:58 Dmitry Torokhov napisał(a):
> > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:07:50PM +0100, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote:
> > > +
> > > +/*
> > > + * This table converts the amstrad mailboard scancodes to normal PC-
> > > AT scancodes
> > > + * The diagram below shows the amstrad keyboard, with the raw
> > > scancodes
> > > + *
> > > + *   (70) (7A) (46) (7C) (77)   Amstrad     (72) (69) (1A) (2A)
> > > (1C) (15)
> > > + * [  71][1:74][2:73][3:6B][4:22][5:1B][6:1D][7:1E][8:79][9:7D]
> > > [0:75][  6C]
> > > + *  [Q:21][W:23][E:24][R:26][T:52][Y:5D][U:0D][I:0E][O:32][P:34]  |
> > > return|
> > > + *   [A:31][S:33][D:35][F:36][G:29][H:5B][J:03][K:76][L:3A][@:3B]
> > >
> > > |   2C|
> > >
> > > + *  [  3C][Z:3D][X:4E][C:54][V:0B][B:05][N:41][M:42][.:43][  3E]
> > > [  55]
> > > + *  [  83][  06][  49][           4B         ][,:44][  16][  2E]
> > > [  09]
> > > + *
> > > + * These scancodes are then translated to AT scancodes using the
> > > following table
> > > + * The amstrad keyboard does not produce any extended scancodes,
> > > but we need to
> > > + * translate some amstrad scancodes to a AT extended scancode,
> > > hence the 16bit
> > > + * value for the translated scancode
> > > + *
> >
> > No, please write a proper keyboard driver instead of creating this
> > Frankenstain monster. It is not a generic serio-style data source so it
> > should not use serio, should reside in drivers/input/keyboard and create
> > input device by itself.
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> Thanks for your opinion.
> 
> Lack of support for Amstrad Delta external keybord is not a problem for me, 
> since I use the machine as an IP phone, not a network terminal. I just 
> thought it would be nice for other users to have this old but perfectly 
> working driver integrated into the mainline. But if it is that bad as you 
> say, I have no problem with dropping it.
> 
> I'll see if I'm able to create a proper driver myself when I find some spare 
> time.

Yes, that would be great, thank you. In fact it should end up about the
same as this driver, except instead of creating and registering serio
port you will need to register input_dev structure and instead of
translating into atkbd scancodes you need to translate directly into
Linux keycodes (KEY_A, KEY_1 and so on).

-- 
Dmitry