[ipxe-devel] #define KEYBOARD_MAP fi does not work

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Thu, 1970-01-01 at 00:00 +0000, Michael Brown wrote:
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> On 06/02/18 08:28, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > I want Swedish keyboard and added #define KEYBOARD_MAP fi
> > to my build(fi is the same layout as Swedish) but my keyboard is
> > still US(on my Lenovo Thinkpad 470s laptop)
> 
> To which header file did you add this #define?

config/local/general.h

> 
> The keyboard mapping is unfortunately imperfect since it's done on the
> basis of translating the ASCII characters returned by the BIOS: i.e. the
> BIOS first applies a US keymap and we then have to mangle the result
> into the closest possible approximation of the desired keymap.
> 
> You can see the characters that iPXE is capable of translating in
> hci/keymap/keymap_fi.c.  Is it failing to translate these characters
> (e.g. does Shift-7 fail to translate from '&' to '/')?

Yes, it is still &

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> Thanks,
> 
> Michael