[PATCH v4 4/5(7)] input: serio: add support for Amstrad Delta serial keyboard port

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Tue May 4 16:40:41 EDT 2010


* Janusz Krzysztofik <jkrzyszt at tis.icnet.pl> [100427 18:09]:
> The patch introduces a serio driver that supports a keyboard serial port found
> on the Amstrad Delta videophone board.
> 
> After initializing the hardware, the driver reads its input data from a buffer
> filled in by the board FIQ (Fast Interrupt Request) handler.
> 
> Standard AT keyboard driver (atkbd) will be used on top of the serio layer for 
> handling the E3 keyboard (called mailboard) connected to the port. Since the 
> device generated scancodes differ from what the atkbd expects, a custom key 
> code to scan code table must be loaded from userspace for the keyboard to be 
> useable.
> 
> Compiles and works on top of PATCH v4 3/5(7), "OMAP1: Amstrad Delta: use FIQ 
> for processing GPIO interrupts".

I'll add this series into omap for-next. Will also add Dmitry's ack
from the earlier series to this patch.

Regards,

Tony



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