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

[Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>]

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Hi Romain,

Romain <romain@rgarbage.fr> writes:

> 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).
> [...]
> 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 :)

No, you're right, that's the kind of refactoring I was thinking about.
It's not conceptually hard but kind of annoying to do.  Same for the
at_keyboard module, although I'm wondering how the current situation
works for you then.

Best,
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Josselin Poiret

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