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

[Mitch Bradley]

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

Yes.

That will require a different firmware.  I am working on the change 
package now - new firmware plus a kit of tag values for specific keyboards.

>
> Kim
>
>
> On 10/8/07, *Mitch Bradley* < wmb at laptop.org <mailto: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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