Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Display and keyboard drivers configuration option for embedded systems | Date | 7 Jan 1997 17:48:11 GMT |
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Followup to: <199701071037.KAA00870@mailhost.datasci.co.uk> By author: ptf@datasci.co.uk ("Paul Flinders") In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > I have been thinking about one change that could be used for X > > terminal. That is to separate the keyboard I/O, which is basically a > > specialized serial port, and the keyboard line discipline which > > handles the protocol between the computer and keyboard. > > Does this sound like SYSV Streams to anyone else? >
Not really. The keyboard port really *is* just a serial port (with a non-UART hardware interface very similar or possibly identical to the PS/2 mouse port) and we're already doing SLIP and PPP as line disciplines. It might be useful to do a keyboard line discipline too.
-hpa
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