New manufacturing data flags for keyboards (2nd draft).

[Mitch Bradley]

Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Mitch Bradley wrote:
>
>   
>> One solution would be to include a lot of keymaps in OFW and select one 
>> based on the new KL tag.  However, I'm not keen on having to carry 
>> around a lot of keymaps in the ROM, and extend that list from time to time.
>>     
>
> There's also a trivial, "good enough" solution to the problem: don't
> do anything.
>
> All non-US computer users like me have learned to live with it, and
> it's not as bad as it may seem to US users.  In Italian, French and
> German layouts, there are typically just a few misplaced keys you
> need to care about... and those you don't remember are easy to find
> by trial and error.
>
> Really, if it's just for system recovery tasks, then it's just for
> techies. And if they're technical enough to type shell and forth
> commands, they're also going to understand the issue rather than
> complain "my keys are messed up, I'm lost!".
>   

I have two complaints in the last two days from techies.