The new keyboard device (keydev) interface implements the kernel's view
of a keyboard providing input events. Its main role is to abstract all
the globals of the KEYSC driver and getkey functions into a separate
object: the "keyboard device".
The device implements event transformations such as modifiers and
repeats, instead of leaving them to getkey. While this can seem
surprising at first, a real keyboard controller is responsible for
repeats and modifier actions depend on the state of the keyboard which
is only tracked in real-time.
In this commit, getkey() has not changed yet apart from indirectly using
the keydev interface with pollevent(). It will be changed soon to use
event transforms in keydev_read(), and will be left in charge of
providing repeat profiles, handling return-to-menu, backlight changes
and timeouts, all of which are user convenience features.
Since Memallox's newlib port is currently unstable, gint has to
provide some standard functions on its own. Instead of a single
<gint/std.h> header, this commit makes a gint/std directory containing
headers under standard names.
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