cvs commit: src/sys/dev/vkbd vkbd.c vkbd_var.h src/sys/modules/vkbd Makefile

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <419A4F8F.8000509 at freebsd.org>
            Scott Long <scottl at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: I guess I'm having a hard time picturing how a bluetooth keyboard works.
: Is it something that you attach in place of a normal PS2 or USB
: keyboard, or is it something that merely augments the real keyboard?  If 
: there is no chance that the BT device could be needed for DDB or 
: single-user mode then I guess that your driver is a good thing, though 
: the 'vkbd' name is a bit misleading since it really only applies to BT.
: But if you're interested in working with Brooks on a more unified
: abstraction, please don't let me stop you =-)

Having looked at the code, it looks like one could also use it to
implment a newton keyboard interface as well.  A newton keyboard is a
serially attached keyboard that has nothing to do with bluetooth, but
which some people use on their tiny laptops in X with a driver program
I wrote a while ago.  This looks to be a fairly clean abstraction.  It
isn't immediately clear if it could also be used for the many-to-one
mux that people have talked about implementing for some time now, but
it isn't clear that it couldn't be used for that also.

It isn't inherently bluetooth from what I could see...

Warner