[BRLTTY] [RFC] GRUB2 and braille support

[mattias]

Device keys?
Hope not if i understand you right
Dropping keys support will meen i cant navigate with the display?

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Från: brltty-bounces at mielke.cc [mailto:brltty-bounces at mielke.cc] För Samuel
Thibault
Skickat: den 29 juli 2010 00:12
Till: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.; Vladimir
'f-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko; The development of GRUB 2
Ämne: Re: [BRLTTY] [RFC] GRUB2 and braille support


For the record, here is attached a list of the external references of
braille drivers (list-brl, filtered out a bit). Apart from standard C
functions, I can see

- timing functions

- bluetooth functions
- serial functions
- usb functions
- io port functions

- dots/character conversion

- logging

- a couple of helpers like isInteger or reallocWrapper which could
  probably be fetched from the brltty source.

- queueing keypresses

Actually, I'm even wondering whether we could just drop support for braille
device keys. Of course, full-fledged support would be great, but that makes
maintainability more difficult.

For the braille translation part, I tried to link together

parse.o file.o queue.o dataarea.o datafile.o ttb_compile.o ttb_native.ok

and it gave me the second list of symbols (list-ttb).  A couple of them are
probably not needed in this context actually (like mkdir).

Samuel