[BusyBox] kmap

[Erik Andersen]

On Thu Jul 04, 2002 at 04:45:28PM -0400, Alejandro Mery Pellegrini wrote:
> I need to map a mini-keyboard for a POS software. So i'll need to use
> loadkmap.
> kmap format seems to be plain text, but loadkmap says "binary keyboard
> translation table". What does it means? gzipped? some kind of 'compiled'
> file?

Busybox includes the 'dumpkmap' applet, which will create such a
binary keyboard translation table from the currently loaded kmap.
The idea is to create a normal kmap file that is appropriate for
your POS mini-keyboard.  Then run 'loadkeys' on your development
system so that your mini-keyboard's keyboard translation tables
are loaded into the linux kernel.  Then run the 'dumpkmap'
applet.  So the whole operation on your development system would
go something like:

    /usr/bin/dumpkeys > normal_keymap
    /bin/loadkeys funky_mini_keyboard_keymap
    ./busybox dumpkmap > funky_mini_keyboard_keymap.bin
    /bin/loadkeys normal_keymap

At which point, you now have a funky_mini_keyboard_keymap.bin
file which can be used with your POS system.

 -Erik

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