Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:55:36 +0200 | From | "J.D. Bakker" <> | Subject | Designing a keyboard controller |
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[Hope this is not too off-topic...]
Hi all,
I'm designing an embedded StrongARM-based system[1] that I want to use with Linux. I need to design a keyboard/mouse interface for this beast, and going by the kernel sources PS/2 seems the way to go (I'd really like to use commodity hardware to talk to X and friends).
I've since found notes on how to capture a PS/2 stream with a microcontroller, but I don't know what the best interface is to offer Linux, ie what should the hardware look like when seen from the kernel . I'd rather not use an 8042 ;-), but I'm open for other suggestions. The StrongARM has an I/O space that is almost but not entirely unlike ISA, and I have some GP I/O pins to spare. Does anyone have an idea what the best interface would be ?
Sincerely,
Jan-Derk Bakker
[1] the Linux Advanced Radio Terminal or LART; 32MB, >200MIPS, <1W, pictures at http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/open-source/LART/ . I'd like to release the hardware design under a GPL-like license; please contact me off-list if you have any suggestions on the legalese that is unavoidably involved.
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