linux-kernel - Re: [HELP REQUESTED from the community] Was: Staging status of speakup

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Message-ID: <875znqhia0.fsf@cmbmachine.messageid.invalid>
Date:   Wed, 24 Jul 2019 21:04:07 -0700
From:   Chris Brannon <chris@...-brannons.com>
To:     Gregory Nowak <greg@...gn.net>
Cc:     Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
        speakup@...ux-speakup.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@...il.com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Kirk Reiser <kirk@...sers.ca>,
        Simon Dickson <simonhdickson@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christopher Brannon <chris@...-brannons.com>
Subject: Re: [HELP REQUESTED from the community] Was: Staging status of speakup

Gregory Nowak <greg@...gn.net> writes:

> keymap
> I believe this is the currently active kernel keymap. I'm not sure of
> the format, probably what dumpkeys(1) and showkey(1) use. Echoing
> different values here should allow for remapping speakup's review
> commands besides remapping the keyboard as a whole.

AFAIK the Speakup keymap is just for remapping keys to Speakup
functions.  It's a binary format, not related to dumpkeys etc.  You need
a special program to compile a textual keymap into something that can be
loaded into /sys/accessibility/speakup/keymap.  I may have source for
that lying around here somewhere.  This is "here there be dragons"
territory.  I think the only specification of the format is in the
source code.

-- Chris