On May 17, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 03:38:00PM -0700, Qrux wrote:
>>
>> Is the rationale for kbd inclusion in LFS (as opposed to BLFS) the fact that
>> there are international users who don't have US keyboards?
>
> Even for insular Americans, it lets you setfont, so you can use a
> style and size of console font which matches your preferences (as
> distinct from using whatever your BIOS, or the kernel (for
> framebuffers - but everyone loves penguins, don't they ?) offers.
I'm trying to get at why it's necessary--by asking for rationale for inclusion.
It was not an effort to figure out which (mostly unused/useless) features it
provides.
Console fonts (and asking people to build FB support in kernels) seem like a
waste of effort when most people probably spend 99% of their time SSH'ed in to
their LFS box or running X (both BLFS considerations).
> But yes, I suggest that most people here don't have US keyboards.
> If we were all American, we'd probably still use ASCII.
What non-pedantic distinction are you making? There is no such thing as an
ASCII keyboard, since ASCII is an encoding. Are you making the point that the
default kernel keyboard drivers converts keypresses into the ASCII-encoding for
the character printed on the keys of a generic 101-key QWERTY keyboard? What
question does that answer?
Does the vanilla kernel & userland require kbd to exist in order to use the
console? If not, why does it exist as a part of LFS? Are there people with
keyboards such that the default kernel driver (i.e., without kdb) cannot
interpret certain keypresses?
Even if so...Why does that even matter? Login as root, and pick passwords
based on some intersection between your keyboard and the default set of
recognized (ASCII) keycodes. You only need enough functionality at the console
to get userland network connectivity or X.
Is kbd necessary even to drive a standard QWERTY keyboard with a vanilla
kernel/userland?
Q
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