Bug 7046

Summary:	selectable keymaps at compile or boot time
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Pupeno (pupeno)
Component:	Input Devices	Assignee:	Dmitry Torokhov (dmitry.torokhov)
Status:	REJECTED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.17	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:

Description Pupeno 2006-08-23 13:10:26 UTC

I think it would be nice to be able to select a default keymap to use. This is 
particular useful for distributions that set the keymap way to late for it to 
take efect before something goes wrong and you are dropped into an (unusuable) 
shell.
I think there are two possible ways to do this:
easy: just pick from a list.
hard: from a list choose all the ones which are going to available, pick a 
default one, then, at boot time, accept a parameter (keymap=dvorak for example) 
and load it.
Thank you.

Comment 1 Dmitry Torokhov 2006-08-23 13:43:58 UTC

Please file this issue with distributions. If they wish they can load user 
selected keymap into initrd/initramsfs and it will be loaded pretty early. We 
are not going to carry every possible keymap in the kernel.