Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Oct 2023 21:56:18 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Implement per-key keyboard backlight as auxdisplay? |
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Hi!
> coming from the leds mailing list I'm writing with Pavel how to best handle > per-key RGB keyboards. > > His suggestion was that it could be implemented as an aux display, but he > also suggested that I ask first if this fits.
Thanks for doing this.
> The specific keyboard RGB controller I want to implement takes 6*21 rgb > values. However not every one is actually mapped to a physical key. e.g. the > bottom row needs less entries because of the space bar. Additionally the > keys are ofc not in a straight line from top to bottom.
So... a bit of rationale. The keyboard does not really fit into the LED subsystem; LEDs are expected to be independent ("hdd led") and not a matrix of them.
We do see various strange displays these days -- they commonly have rounded corners and holes in them. I'm not sure how that's currently supported, but I believe it is reasonable to view keyboard as a display with slightly weird placing of pixels.
Plus, I'd really like to play tetris on one of those :-).
So, would presenting them as auxdisplay be acceptable? Or are there better options?
Best regards, Pavel -- People of Russia, stop Putin before his war on Ukraine escalates. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |