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SubjectRe: Mark keyboard RAW mode deprecated
Hi!

> Yup: in the DU case, I hid all this sort of mess in the device driver.
> Putting such messes in the device driver makes a certain amount of sense,
> as you have to have something to get the system off the ground in the
> first place to interface with fully cooked terminal drivers. I don't
> know how braindead pc keyboards are, but guarantee that Digital was able
> to have some pretty wierd keyboards (not as bad as some I heard of in the
> industry 10 years ago: some were completely incapable of doing both
> down and up events, and there was opposition to this requirement by
> X's design; most apps don't care, but a few care alot, so some people
> just plain got to lose for certain apps.).
>
> This could be done differently without device driver changes, by a different
> implementation of the OS specific section of the X server. The X server
> internal design is quite good at such things: we had to support a ton
> of different operating systems/keyboards/displays. XFree86 4.0 goes
> to a modular server at long last: I dunno if the OS interface piece is
> a module or not, however. And some more work will be needed in this
> area to deal with USB properly.

My point was: X just should _not_ know whether keyboard is usb or ps/2
or whatever.

Anyway, vojtech told me medium raw has big problem: limitation to 128
keys. Bad. So I'm stopping this.
Pavel
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