[syslinux] Including keyboard mappings (Was: Very last call for Syslinux 4.02)

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> I would like to release Syslinux 4.02 TODAY.  If there is anything I'm
> missing, or which is wrong in Syslinux 4.02-pre3, please scream loudly
> NOW...

Hi Peter,

I produced 4.02-pre3 builds without a problem for RHEL3, RHEL4 and RHEL5.

Today we came across another small change that would serve us well. We are 
implementing a disaster-recovery solution and are in need for 
keyboard-mappings for syslinux. We only need a few, but for us it would be 
helpful if the keyboard-mappings are readily available (and of good 
quality).

Currently we are using the keyboard mappings as they come with the 
RIPLinux ISO. However it would make more sense IMO to ship them with 
syslinux, especially since we now have working keyb.c32 that allows to 
change keyboard settings on the fly.

Would it be possible to include those files (coming from RIPLinux) into 
the syslinux distribution ?

PS On a side-note we do have problems with the numeric keypad using the BE 
mappings, which I don't think we can easily fix using the current 
implementation. It seems that the numeric keypad is mapped directly to the 
US numerical keys and therefore produce the wrong characters if not 
similar to US. Not something I expect to be a priority ;-)

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