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From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unisys pc keyboard new keys patch, kernel 2.4.3
To: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 02:54:17 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <9b83i5$ha7$1@cesium.transmeta.com> from "H. Peter Anvin" at Apr 13, 2001 04:53:41 PM
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H. Peter Anvin writes:

> This means you don't have to configure two levels (scancodes ->
> keycodes and keycodes -> keymap); since currently the keycodes are
> keyboard-specific anyway there is no benefit to the two levels.

The medium-raw level ought to be what the X11R6 protocol uses.
Then the keyboard-specific stuff can be removed from XFree86,
and there would be one less mapping to configure.
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