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WSKBD(9)                   Kernel Developer's Manual                  WSKBD(9)

NAME
     wskbd, wskbd_input, wskbd_rawinput, wskbd_cnattach, wskbd_cndetach,
     wskbddevprint - wscons keyboard support

SYNOPSIS
     #include <dev/wscons/wsconsio.h>
     #include <dev/wscons/wskbdvar.h>
     #include <dev/wscons/wsksymdef.h>
     #include <dev/wscons/wsksymvar.h>

     void
     wskbd_input(struct device *kbddev, u_int type, int value);

     void
     wskbd_rawinput(struct device *kbddev, u_char *buf, int len);

     void
     wskbd_cnattach(const struct wskbd_consops *consops, void *conscookie,
         const struct wskbd_mapdata *mapdata);

     void
     wskbd_cndetach();

     int
     wskbddevprint(void *aux, const char *pnp);

DESCRIPTION
     The wskbd module is a component of the wscons(9) framework to provide
     machine-independent keyboard support.  Most of the support is provided by
     the wskbd(4) device driver, which must be a child of the hardware device
     driver.

DATA TYPES
     Keyboard drivers providing support for wscons keyboards will make use of
     the following data types:

     kbd_t    An opaque type describing keyboard properties.

     keysym_t
              The wscons keyboard-independent symbolic representation of the
              keypress.

     struct wskbd_accessops
              A structure used to specify the keyboard access functions.  All
              keyboards must provide this structure and pass it to the
              wskbd(4) child device.  It has the following members:

                      int     (*enable)(void *, int);
                      void    (*set_leds)(void *, int);
                      int     (*ioctl)(void *v, u_long cmd, void *data,
                                      int flag, struct lwp *l);

              The enable member defines the function to be called to enable
              keypress passing to wscons.  The set_leds member defined the
              function to be called to set the LEDs on the keyboard.  The
              ioctl member defines the function to be called to perform
              keyboard-specific ioctl calls.

              There is a void * cookie provided by the keyboard driver
              associated with these functions, which is passed to them when
              they are invoked.

     struct wskbd_consops
              A structure used to specify the keyboard console operations.
              All keyboards which can operate as a console must provide this
              structure and pass it to the wskbd(4) child device.  If the
              keyboard cannot be a console, it is not necessary to specify
              this structure.  It has the following members:

                      void    (*getc)(void *, u_int *, int *);
                      void    (*pollc)(void *, int);
                      void    (*bell)(void *, u_int, u_int, u_int);

              There is a void * cookie provided by the keyboard driver
              associated with these functions, which is passed to them when
              they are invoked.

     struct wscons_keydesc
              A structure used to describe a keyboard mapping table to convert
              keyboard-specific keycodes to wscons keysyms.  It has the
              following members:

                      kbd_t   name;           /* name of this map */
                      kbd_t   base;           /* map this one is based on */
                      int     map_size;       /* size of map */
                      const   keysym_t *map;  /* the map itself */

     struct wskbd_mapdata
              A structure used to describe the keyboard layout and operation
              to interpret the keyboard layout.  it contains the following
              members:

                      const struct wscons_keydesc *keydesc;
                      kbd_t layout;

     struct wskbddev_attach_args
              A structure used to attach the wskbd(4) child device.  It has
              the following members:

                      int console;
                      const struct wskbd_mapdata *keymap;
                      const struct wskbd_accessops *accessops;
                      void *accesscookie;

   Keymaps
     Keymaps are a dense stream of keysym_t.  A declaration has the following
     fields:

     pos [cmd] normal [shift] [altgr] [shift-altgr]

     The fields have the following meanings:

           pos          Always specified as KC(pos) and starts the description
                        of key pos.
           cmd          If the command modifier (KS_Cmd_XXX) is active, the
                        optional command cmd is invoked.
           normal       The keysym if no modifiers are active.
           shift        The keysym if the shift modifier is active.
           altgr        The keysym if the alt-gr modifier is active.
           shift-altgr  The keysym if the shift-alt-gr modifier is active.

     If the keysym after pos is not KS_Cmd_XXX, then cmd is empty.  The shift,
     altgr and shift-altgr fields are determined from previous fields if they
     are not specified.  Therefore, there are four valid keysym declarations:

     pos [cmd] normal

     pos [cmd] normal shift

     pos [cmd] normal shift altgr

     pos [cmd] normal shift altgr shift-altgr

FUNCTIONS
     wskbd_input(kbddev, type, value)
              Pass the keypress of value value and type type to wscons
              keyboard driver.  Valid values of type are:

              WSCONS_EVENT_KEY_UP
                       Key released.

              WSCONS_EVENT_KEY_DOWN
                       Key pressed.

     wskbd_rawinput(kbddev, buf, len)
              Pass the raw keypress in the buffer buf to the wscons keyboard
              driver.  The buffer is len bytes long.  This function should
              only be called if the kernel option WSDISPLAY_COMPAT_RAWKBD is
              enabled.

     wskbd_cnattach(consops, conscookie, mapdata)
              Attach this keyboard as the console input by specifying the
              console operations consops and the keyboard mapping table
              information in mapdata.  The functions specified in consops will
              be called with conscookie as the first argument.

     wskbd_cndetach()
              Detach this keyboard as the console input.

     wskbddevprint(aux, pnp)
              The default wskbd printing routine used by config_found().  (see
              autoconf(9)).

AUTOCONFIGURATION
     Keyboard drivers which want to use the wskbd module must be a parent to
     the wskbd(4) device and provide an attachment interface.  To attach the
     wskbd(4) device, the keyboard driver must allocate and populate a
     wskbddev_attach_args structure with the supported operations and
     callbacks and call config_found() to perform the attach (see
     autoconf(9)).  The keymap member points to the wskbd_mapdata structure
     which describes the keycode mapping operations.  The accessops member
     points to the wskbd_accessops structure which describes the keyboard
     access operations.  The console member is a boolean to indicate to wscons
     whether this keyboard will be used for console input.

OPERATION
     If the keyboard belongs to the system console, it must register the
     wskbd_consops structure specifying the console operations via
     wskbd_cnattach() at console attach time.

     When a keypress arrives from the keyboard, the keyboard driver must
     perform any necessary character decoding to wscons events and pass the
     events to wscons via wskbd_input().  If the kernel is compiled with the
     option WSDISPLAY_COMPAT_RAWKBD, then the keyboard driver must also pass
     the raw keyboard data to wscons via wskbd_rawinput().

     The wscons framework calls back into the hardware driver by invoking the
     functions that are specified in the accessops structure.  The enable()
     and set_leds() functions are relatively simple and self-explanatory.  The
     ioctl() function is called by the wscons interface to perform keyboard-
     specific ioctl operations (see ioctl(2)).  The argument cmd to the
     ioctl() function specifies the specific command to perform using the data
     data.  Valid commands are listed in sys/dev/wscons/wsconsio.h.

CODE REFERENCES
     The wscons subsystem is implemented within the directory sys/dev/wscons.
     The wskbd module itself is implement within the files
     sys/dev/wscons/wskbd.c and sys/dev/wscons/wskbdutil.c.  ioctl(2)
     operations are listed in sys/dev/wscons/wsconsio.h.

SEE ALSO
     ioctl(2), autoconf(9), driver(9), intro(9), wsdisplay(9), wsmouse(9)

NetBSD 10.99                   December 20, 2005                  NetBSD 10.99