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Date:      Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:57:17 -0800
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd@omnilan.de>
Cc:        freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unhandled ps2 keyboard keysym with UEFI-edk2-bootrom and bhyve(8)
Message-ID:  <bab035af-29e2-ea00-cb35-45d0a146cbf9@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <584DBEAA.1080502@omnilan.de>
References:  <584DBEAA.1080502@omnilan.de>

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Hi Harry,

> Unfortunately the VNC part seems to have keyscan problems:
>     Unhandled ps2 keyboard keysym 0xc4
>     Unhandled ps2 keyboard keysym 0xf6
>     Unhandled ps2 keyboard keysym 0xff7f
> Just to list a view...
>
> The really unfortunate problem is that some characters are completely
> missing, while others are just shifted (involving even meta keys).
> I haven't found any rule yet, it looks like a mixture of en-US and de-DE
> layout.
> Most unfortunate, I can't login because of the missing characters :-( So
> close yet so far...

  Would you be able to list the key mappings that don't work (and also 
the VNC client you are using) ?

> But what I'm really wondering about is how to influence boot order e.g.
>
> If I boot into the EFI shell (edk2-bootrom guest) and return with exit
> into the uefi firmware setup (still edk2-bootrom), I can select what to
> boot with the boot manager (also MBR booting via CSM works great, thanks
> thanks thanks!), and I can also save the settings, but they are lost if
> bhyve(8) terminates.
> There's /dev/vmm.io/host-bootrom, which I don't understand yet, but
> probably that's a way to feed the firmware?

  There's a fix for this in progress - the contents of the UEFI NV vars 
will be saved/restored from a host file.

later,

Peter.




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