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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/20/2010 05:41 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 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 ?
> 

I'd rather not.  I have a program included (keytab-lilo) which allows
one to convert from the keymaps included with kbd to LILO/Syslinux
format, and the keymaps in kbd are always going to be better maintained
than me maintaining a set separately.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.