You can open /dev/wskbd and read the raw events from the keyboard.
If you want them to appear as if they came from a tty you can open that
tty, decode the events from wskbd, and insert them in the tty input queue
with ioctl TIOCSTI (if my memory serves me).

    -- Lennart


anand lalgondar wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Martin: Well, I don't have a graphics card, and I think the "split 
> console" concept depends on the graphics card.
>
> On the i386 host machine I use "minicom" to communicate with the MIPS 
> Target Board, which gets all the file information from NFS. So the 
> keyboard of the i386 host machine acts as an input device to the MIPS 
> Target Board (Minicom connection serial-serial, 38400/8/N). The MIPS 
> Target Board has a machine dependent serial driver written that 
> accepts-input and outputs-data to minicom. So the console here is the 
> transmit/receive line of the serial port. That is fine.
>
> But since I am testing USB Keyboard how can I redirect the output to 
> the above mentioned console.
>
> Does USB Keyboard driver decode the inputs to ASCII values and pass it 
> to the upper layer (wskbd), or are they decoded in wskbd.
>
> Is USB Keyboard completely independent. In the sense will it decode 
> the input characters  completely and place it in a buffer that can be 
> sent to any device (either a character or a display device), without 
> the help of wskbd (wscons framework).
>
> I assume the wskbd works within the wscons framework, i.e if there is 
> no wsdisplay then the whole wscons framework is not useful.
>
> Can you provide some inputs regarding this.
>
> Well thanks for both of you to getting involved in this discussion.
>
> Anand Lalgondar
>
>> From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
>> Reply-To: lennart@augustsson.net
>> To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
>> CC: anand lalgondar <anandlalgondar@hotmail.com>, tech-kern@NetBSD.org
>> Subject: Re: Wskbd
>> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 00:29:43 +0200
>>
>> You could use a serial line as the keyboard for a console by writing
>> a small program that accepts characters from the tty and injects them
>> into the wskbd mux.  A similar program, moused, already exists for
>> serial mice.
>>
>>    -- Lennart
>>
>> Martin Husemann wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:54:07PM +0530, anand lalgondar wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Now when I connect a USB keyboard it gets detected as "wskbd0 at 
>>>> ukbd0" in the dmesg. But when I press any key on the USB Keyboard 
>>>> it doesn't display anything. I assume this is because I dont have 
>>>> any wsdisplay.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I see. This is what is sometimes called "split console" on sparcs, 
>>> where you
>>> can select at the firmware level to have input from serial console 
>>> and output
>>> to the graphics card - or vice versa.
>>>
>>> I think unfortunately wscons does not provide this ability 
>>> currently, but it
>>> is a desirable extension.
>>>
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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