Re: Keyboard layout in GRUB (Was: On the road to the next release: testing the installer)

[Romain <romain@rgarbage.fr>]

Hello,

On February 12, 2024 11:29:37 AM GMT+01:00, Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> wrote:
>Hi Felix,
>
>Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> writes:
>
>> I do not suffer from the issue described here but rewrote the bootloader
>> code locally for more flexibility (and may be able to contribute
>> it). Could we simply move the reference to keyboard-layout-config here
>> up by a few lines?  [1]
>
>We could move it up and that would solve it for people not using
>encrypted /boot I believe.  

IIRC, grub doesn't take the keymap into account unless the `at_keyboard` module is loaded. It is not the case at the moment.
Also there seems to be an incompatibility between this module and some laptop keyboards (for example I have a Thinkpad X220 with libreboot/seabios payload and the keyboard stopped working after loading this module).

>I believe we don't use grub-mkimage directly for the efi case for now,
>which is the command we want to use to be able to include arbitrary
>files in the image, hence my comment about the code needing some
>refactoring.

Even in the BIOS case, as far as I understood the code, the grub image installer function doesn't have access to `bootloader-configuration` data. I think that passing it down to this function would require some changes in the way the bootloader is installed. But I might have overseen something, that I why I was hoping for someone knowledgeable to jump in the discussion :)

-- 
Romain