Fwd: Bug#429695: grub-efi: key combinations requiring ctrl do not work

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:39:37PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Package: grub-efi
> Version: 1.95+20070604-1
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is a reminder of the bug that upstream also acknowledges, but I
> think it needs to be noted down in order to get grub-efi to be usable
> in prime-time.
> 
> grub-efi does not accept ctrl-{character} keys. Since grub2 requires
> ctrl-{character} keys in editing menus (except for the 'escape' and
> enter and up / down) you can't really do too many useful things.
> 
> I think either of the following needs to happen
> 
> 1. key needs to be remapped
> 2. get ctrl key to start working.

Upstream acknowledges this bug in http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnEFI and
says:

  "[..] I guess I should write my own keyboard driver for EFI and replace the
  standard buggy driver."

There's a SoC contributor in the process of writing an AT keyboard driver
as part of the LinuxBIOS/grub2 integration project.

Is it possible that this code can be reused for EFI?  Or does EFI block access
to keyboard controller completely?

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