Agreed on the i8042 translation, a few years ago I tested this in
embedded PC environments, and every board I found allowed they keyboard
controller translation to be turned off. This would increase the amount
of data sent (f0 prefix for down code if I remember correctly), but
subsequent translation is a hell of a lot simpler.
If by the keyboard switching, you're referring to the scan set it
supplies (set1/set2/set3), then there is a problem. For some of the
keyboards I tested, changing out of the normal set (set2 I think)
would crash the keyboard. The only way to then recover was to power
cycle the keyboard.
DF
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