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

Kim Quirk kim at laptop.org
Mon Oct 8 10:22:41 EDT 2007


Mitch,
We probably should plan to get these new tags into the 50 unit MP Pre-build
as well. Do you agree?

Kim


On 10/8/07, Mitch Bradley <wmb at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> The proposal for the ASCII keyboard map is detailed in:
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_Data#Keyboard_ASCII_Map
>
> In the process, I extended the tag format in an upward-compatible
> fashion to allow value strings longer than 127 bytes:
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_Data#Data_Format
>
> I have implemented support for that new format, with full
> interoperability with the old short format, in a test version of the
> firmware.
>
> I plan to write a program that will automatically create an image of the
> new KA tag from the master spreadsheets that define the OLPC keyboard
> layouts.
>
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