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Bug ID 6427784
Synopsis Solaris need be updated to support OBP changes(FWARC 2006/224) for the type7C keyboards
State 10-Fix Delivered (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory kernel:keyboard
Keywords s10u3-triage
Responsible Engineer Strony Zhang
Reported Against snv_41
Duplicate Of
Introduced In
Commit to Fix snv_58
Fixed In snv_58
Release Fixed solaris_nevada(snv_58) , solaris_10u4(s10u4_07) (Bug ID:2148191)
Related Bugs 6394040 , 6438319 , 6442328 , 6471032 , 6488184 , 6526932 , 6535670
Submit Date 19-May-2006
Last Update Date 6-November-2008
Description 
Acoording to the materials of FWARC 2006/224, there are three mainly parts changed to support the type7c keyboards

1. SHIFT-PAUSE key sequence under both OpenBoot and Solaris to send "break" 
2. NVRAM variable "keyboard-layout" added
The keyboard selection will be passed to Solaris in the NVRAM variable "keyboard-layout". This avoids the necessity of Solaris re-asking if the selection has already been made in OBP, as well as allowing Solaris to communicate the results to OBP if a selection or change is made while Unix is running.
3. The supported keyboard layouts are provided in OBP for the NVRAM variable.
Work Around 
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Comments 
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