Re: [PATCH] zs: Move to the serial subsystem

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, 30 May 2007, Jan Rekorajski wrote:

> Look functional to me (just booted my DecStation 5000/240) :)

 Great!  Thanks for testing.

> Any chance to get LK201/401 keyboard and vsxxxaa mouse working with this?

 For the time being a solution is the patch below and then:

CONFIG_INPUT=y
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_LKKBD=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_VSXXXAA=y
CONFIG_SERIO=y
CONFIG_SERIO_SERPORT=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING=y

plus your framebuffer of choice.  To activate the keyboard you have to run 
the following program:

#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define SPIOCSTYPE _IOW('q', 0x01, unsigned long)
#define SERIO_LKKBD 0x28

int main(void)
{
        int fd, ldisc = N_MOUSE, type = SERIO_LKKBD;
        char buf;

        fd = open("/dev/ttyS2", O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK);
        ioctl(fd, TIOCSETD, &ldisc);
        ioctl(fd, SPIOCSTYPE, &type);
        read(fd, &buf, 1);
        close(fd);

        return 0;
}

Use "/dev/ttyS0" and:

#define SERIO_VSXXXAA 0x08

for the mouse as appropriate.  Before you run the program you need to set 
the line settings correctly -- that would be:

# stty -F /dev/ttyS2 4800 cstopb raw -echo -echoe -echok noflsh

for the keyboard and:

# stty -F /dev/ttyS0 4800 cstopb raw -echo -echoe -echok noflsh parenb parodd

for the mouse (considering it a temporary hack I have not added that bit 
to the program above).  Lacking a suitable rodent at hand I have only 
tested the keyboard -- it worked.  Please note that killing the program 
(which normally does not terminate -- read() blocks forever) removes the 
binding.

 I am looking into a solution that would make it automatic without the 
need of involving userland which just does not seem right here -- you do 
want to run your kernel with "init=/bin/bash" or suchlike and have your 
virtual terminal console usable.  I will remove the old lk201 bits then.

  Maciej

patch-mips-2.6.18-20060920-nolk201-1
diff -up --recursive --new-file 
linux-mips-2.6.18-20060920.macro/drivers/tc/Makefile 
linux-mips-2.6.18-20060920/drivers/tc/Makefile
--- linux-mips-2.6.18-20060920.macro/drivers/tc/Makefile        2007-01-07 
18:04:10.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-mips-2.6.18-20060920/drivers/tc/Makefile      2007-01-07 
18:33:47.000000000 +0000
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # Object file lists.
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_TC) += tc.o tc-driver.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_VT) += lk201.o lk201-map.o lk201-remap.o
+# obj-$(CONFIG_VT) += lk201.o lk201-map.o lk201-remap.o
 
 $(obj)/lk201-map.o: $(obj)/lk201-map.c