Kevin O'Connor wrote:
I can see this being a source of usability issues. Is there any way to reasonably generate the message from the scan code?
It's a pain to attempt to auto-generate the message.
Could an incorrect message at least be avoided?
How about crowdsourcing scan code translations? Include ESC, F12 and a few others, print the scan code itself into the message for all unknown scan codes in boot-menu-key, and accept patches (or not!) for more scan codes.
I don't think it is too hard to also update CBFS with the desired message.
It's not. I don't think it is too hard for SeaBIOS to at least not output an incorrect instruction.
FYI, the boot-menu-key / boot-menu-message files aren't new. They were used in the past to change to ESC on several machines. The only recent change is using ESC as the default.
Ack.
Thanks
//Peter