[OpenBIOS] [commit] r1073 - trunk/openbios-devel/arch/ppc/qemu

Tarl Neustaedter tarl-b2 at tarl.net
Sat Nov 24 20:03:13 CET 2012


On 2012-Nov-24 13:50 , Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure that's the right answer - the input device isn't
>> necessarily a keyboard, is it?
>
> Ah hang on a second - perhaps I've misunderstood you here. Is what 
> you're saying here is that the keyboard property can only belong to a 
> (physical) keyboard device?

Right. You don't want to create a keyboard devalias if the input-device 
is a serial port. It may not matter for openbios under qemu, but when 
you get to real hardware, there are cases where you need to distinguish 
between keyboards and serial ports.




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