Re: Kernel 2.6.8 - SILO/initrd problems
David S. Miller wrote: If you simply, as the bug report recommends, run dpkg-reconfigure on console-data package and tell it to simply use the kernel keymap things will work perfectly fine for both 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels on sparc64. Dave, is there no good way to allow the kernels to use the sun userspace keymap? With our upcoming release in mind it may be a better idea to fix the kernel instead of hacking around it in userspace... Not sure which is better at this point as I'm not sure why the behavior was changed (there's a good reason, right? ;)) -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Kernel 2.6.8 - SILO/initrd problems
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:26:13 -0700 Joshua Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With our upcoming release in mind it may be a better idea to fix the kernel instead of hacking around it in userspace... Why is the kernel in need of fixing? In particular, given the fact that from a distribution maker's perspective, the 2.6.x behavior (generating _ONLY_ x86 key codes to userspace regardless of architecture or keyboard type) is a boon for simplification for keyboard configuration. No more Sun/ARM/PPC/etc. specific crap needed anymore. In fact I find it quite puzzling that, given the above, you want to revert back to the 2.4.x days of complicated keyboard configuration.
