[openbeos] Re: Haiku base distro

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:32:28 +0200 CEST

Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > While your assumption might still be true, the console mode uses a 
> > different driver, IIRC.
> Yeah, but it makes it much less likely. Why do we have two different 
> drivers?

Historical reasons? :-)
The old one is very simple and has a hard-wired keymap; we've taken it 
over from NewOS. It doesn't test for the keyboard either, it just 
assumes it to be there.

Bye,
   Axel.


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