On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 04:29:30PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 08:22:21AM -0800, Simon Glass wrote: > > Can the Linux key codes fit in 8 bits? > > That depends on your point of view. > > If you hack on X, then the answer is yes and you ignore the squeels of > your users when certain key presses get misinterpreted. (The Psion LX > platform, otherwise known as the Netbook Pro, suffered with this problem.) > > If you are a kernel hacker, the answer is no, because key codes currently > go all the way to 0x300.
For bootloader environment 0-255 range is probably sufficient though, the upper keys are somewhat recent additions to the maps... -- Dmitry _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
