[OpenBIOS] [commit] r1073 - trunk/openbios-devel/arch/ppc/qemu

[Tarl Neustaedter]

On 2012-Nov-24 09:43 , repository service wrote:
> +\ set the keyboard alias to stdin
> +:noname
> +  active-package
> +  " /aliases" find-device
> +  input-device encode-string " keyboard" property
> +  active-package!
> +; SYSTEM-initializer
> +
>   \ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   \ pre-booting
>   \ -------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm not sure that's the right answer - the input device isn't 
necessarily a keyboard, is it?

The way openboot creates this alias is during device creation. When a 
keyboard is created, FCode creates a boolean property "keyboard" in its 
device node. Openboot's framework, when device creation is done (I think 
it's in finish-device), looks for this property and creates a keyboard 
devalias when it exists. That might be heavier weight than needed for 
openbios (you don't need to support multiple keyboard drivers, like adb 
and usb, independently), but I'm a bit apprehensive about just assuming 
input-device is a keyboard.