docs/system/devices/keyboard.rst

.. _keyboard:

Sparc32 keyboard
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SUN Type 4, 5 and 5c keyboards have dip switches to choose the language layout
of the keyboard. Solaris makes an ioctl to query the value of the dipswitches
and uses that value to select keyboard layout. Also the SUN bios like the one
in the file ss5.bin uses this value to support at least some keyboard layouts.
However, the OpenBIOS provided with qemu is hardcoded to always use an
US keyboard layout.

With the escc.chnA-sunkbd-layout driver property it is possible to select
keyboard layout. Example:

-global escc.chnA-sunkbd-layout=de

Depending on type of keyboard, the keyboard can have 6 or 5 dip-switches to
select keyboard layout, giving up to 64 different layouts. Not all
combinations are supported by Solaris and even less by Sun OpenBoot BIOS.

The dip switch settings can be given as hexadecimal number, decimal number
or in some cases as a language string. Examples:

-global escc.chnA-sunkbd-layout=0x2b

-global escc.chnA-sunkbd-layout=43

-global escc.chnA-sunkbd-layout=sv

The above 3 examples all select a swedish keyboard layout. Table 3-15 at
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/806-6642/new-43/index.html explains which
keytable file is used for different dip switch settings. The information
in that table can be summarized in this table:

.. list-table:: Language selection values for escc.chnA-sunkbd-layout
   :widths: 10 10 10
   :header-rows: 1

   * - Hexadecimal value
     - Decimal value
     - Language code
   * - 0x21
     - 33
     - en-us
   * - 0x23
     - 35
     - fr
   * - 0x24
     - 36
     - da
   * - 0x25
     - 37
     - de
   * - 0x26
     - 38
     - it
   * - 0x27
     - 39
     - nl
   * - 0x28
     - 40
     - no
   * - 0x29
     - 41
     - pt
   * - 0x2a
     - 42
     - es
   * - 0x2b
     - 43
     - sv
   * - 0x2c
     - 44
     - fr-ch
   * - 0x2d
     - 45
     - de-ch
   * - 0x2e
     - 46
     - en-gb
   * - 0x2f
     - 47
     - ko
   * - 0x30
     - 48
     - tw
   * - 0x31
     - 49
     - ja
   * - 0x32
     - 50
     - fr-ca
   * - 0x33
     - 51
     - hu
   * - 0x34
     - 52
     - pl
   * - 0x35
     - 53
     - cz
   * - 0x36
     - 54
     - ru
   * - 0x37
     - 55
     - lv
   * - 0x38
     - 56
     - tr
   * - 0x39
     - 57
     - gr
   * - 0x3a
     - 58
     - ar
   * - 0x3b
     - 59
     - lt
   * - 0x3c
     - 60
     - nl-be
   * - 0x3c
     - 60
     - be

Not all dip switch values have a corresponding language code and both "be" and
"nl-be" correspond to the same dip switch value. By default, if no value is
given to escc.chnA-sunkbd-layout 0x21 (en-us) will be used.