[syslinux] proper keymap format ?

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 04/03/2011 02:36 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
> I would like to reiterate my wish that syslinux ships with a known set
> of keyboard mappings for people to include in their project.
> 
>     http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/files/2008-September/010708.html
> 
> The reason for this is that for some keyboard layouts important
> characters are mapped behind AltGr which cannot be produced by the
> current implementation and therefore have to be mapped differently.
> 
> Providing a set of good keyboard mappings (as shipped by systemrescuecd)
> together with some customized mappings for those problematic keyboard
> layouts. Only if we provide them somewhere, people can contribute
> improvements instead of rolling their own and other projects benefit
> from this too.
> 
> Since these files are 256 bytes each, adding them to the syslinux
> release shouldn't be problematic. Can we consider this ?
> 

I don't want to ship this kind of precompiled stuff only with Syslinux
without the source material.  I am willing to consider shipping it all
-- including the base material -- with Syslinux, but only if someone who
is not me signs up to maintain it.

	-hpa

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