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

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Wed, 2018-02-07 at 18:41 +0000, Michael Brown wrote:
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> On 07/02/18 09:11, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > Fond my error: should be config/local/console.h
> > Somewhat inconvenient to use different files though
> 
> The config is split across multiple files to avoid having to rebuild the
> entire codebase whenever you make a configuration change.
> 
> > > > 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 &
> > 
> > Shift-7 works now
> 
> Great!
> 
> > but there are several key not translated and AltGr does not work.
> > > <åäö\ are some.
> 
> The BIOS almost certainly does not understand the AltGr key, which means
> that by the time the keyboard data reaches iPXE that information has
> already been discarded.

OK. but ><åäö probably more are not on AltGr and these are not mapped either.