linux-kernel - Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support

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Message-Id: <20090618.123845.232783995.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:38:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	swetland@...gle.com
Cc:	pavel@....cz, arve@...roid.com, linux@....linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, san@...roid.com,
	rlove@...gle.com, greg@...ah.com
Subject: Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support

From: Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:33:48 -0700

> Yeah, I wasn't sure how to handle this.  We try to keep the msm/dream
> stuff in a state that doesn't break other parts of the tree, but there
> doesn't seem to be support for different keymaps for different
> devices.

How it's supposed to work is that you have a specific keyboard driver
and that emits PC keyboard codes into the core kernel using a
translation table in your driver.

For example on Sparc machines we have a Sun Type-4/5 keyboard driver,
but all applications and the kernel see PC keycodes.
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