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Jorge Guzman b5382c5fb3 Documentation: describe the contract for writing a keyboard driver
The keyboard driver documentation described the byte stream codec and
nothing else.  It never mentioned keyboard_register(), keyboard_event()
or the event types, so somebody writing a driver had no way to find the
interface that every keyboard in the tree actually uses.

That omission has a cost that can be counted:  six of the nine drivers
that register a keyboard report only the press and release types and
never the special ones, which means their arrow keys are silently
dropped by any application that follows the contract.  The header they
would read to find out declares two of the four types.

Document the contract, why the event type is what tells an arrow key
from the character that shares its value, what to name the device, how
to get a matrix keyboard working without writing a driver at all, and
how to test the result with or without the hardware.

Signed-off-by: Jorge Guzman <jorge.gzm@gmail.com>
2026-07-31 11:02:20 -03:00
.github build(deps): bump actions/setup-python from 6 to 7 2026-07-27 13:34:36 -04:00
arch arch/arm/rtl8721f: add GPIO character driver support 2026-07-31 08:49:23 +02:00
audio tools: fix stale archive members surviving a Kconfig-driven CSRCS change 2026-07-28 21:26:03 -03:00
binfmt tools: fix stale archive members surviving a Kconfig-driven CSRCS change 2026-07-28 21:26:03 -03:00
boards boards: select the keyboard byte stream where the application needs it 2026-07-31 11:02:20 -03:00
cmake cmake: Omit default priority ELF symbol. 2026-07-27 14:30:42 +08:00
crypto tools: fix stale archive members surviving a Kconfig-driven CSRCS change 2026-07-28 21:26:03 -03:00
Documentation Documentation: describe the contract for writing a keyboard driver 2026-07-31 11:02:20 -03:00
drivers drivers/input: report special keys from the keyboard matrix 2026-07-31 11:02:20 -03:00
dummy build: add initial cmake build system 2023-07-08 13:50:48 +08:00
fs fs: enforce permission checks when opening IPC pseudo-inodes 2026-07-30 09:48:10 +08:00
graphics tools: fix stale archive members surviving a Kconfig-driven CSRCS change 2026-07-28 21:26:03 -03:00
include drivers/input: report special keys from the keyboard matrix 2026-07-31 11:02:20 -03:00
libs libc/pwd: default ostest multiuser passwd path to /tmp/ostest_passwd 2026-07-30 09:48:10 +08:00
mm mm/ubsan: fix signed inline value decoding 2026-07-30 12:52:17 +02:00
net tools: fix stale archive members surviving a Kconfig-driven CSRCS change 2026-07-28 21:26:03 -03:00
openamp tools: fix stale archive members surviving a Kconfig-driven CSRCS change 2026-07-28 21:26:03 -03:00
pass1 tools: fix stale archive members surviving a Kconfig-driven CSRCS change 2026-07-28 21:26:03 -03:00
sched sched/group: add getresuid, getresgid, setreuid, and setregid 2026-07-30 09:48:10 +08:00
syscall sched/group: add getresuid, getresgid, setreuid, and setregid 2026-07-30 09:48:10 +08:00
tools arch/arm/rtl8721f: bring up minimal NSH (P1) 2026-07-30 17:04:14 +08:00
video tools: fix stale archive members surviving a Kconfig-driven CSRCS change 2026-07-28 21:26:03 -03:00
wireless tools: fix stale archive members surviving a Kconfig-driven CSRCS change 2026-07-28 21:26:03 -03:00
.asf.yaml github: master branch protection tune. 2025-05-07 18:37:13 -05:00
.codespell-ignore-lines arch/arm: Reserve r10 via ARCHCFLAGS and hoist the PIC module flags. 2026-07-24 23:09:08 +08:00
.codespellrc arch/arm/rp23xx: Add hardware TRNG driver for /dev/random. 2026-07-25 15:06:56 +08:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: fix character encoding property specification 2025-11-28 19:12:13 +08:00
.gitignore git: Specify multiple build directories in .gitignore. 2026-05-20 03:06:58 +08:00
.gitmessage docs/contributing: Add a commit message template 2025-06-03 17:33:24 +08:00
.pre-commit-config.yaml pre-commit: enable codespell checks 2025-05-05 12:34:39 +08:00
.yamllint feat: add a GitHub action to lint the YAML files 2020-12-15 09:52:04 -06:00
AUTHORS AUTHORS: add Eren Terzioglu 2026-05-20 15:17:00 +08:00
CMakeLists.txt cmake: Do not link an executable to detect the compiler. 2026-07-25 22:52:39 +08:00
CONTRIBUTING.md contributing: Add requirement for 'Assisted-by' commit field 2026-07-12 09:42:28 +08:00
INVIOLABLES.md INVIOLABLES.md: Fix a simple alignment and change occurrences of Nuttx 2020-09-03 01:33:05 +08:00
Kconfig sched/misc/assert: Add CONFIG_SCHED_DUMP_TASKS and CONFIG_SCHED_DUMP_STACK 2026-06-09 08:04:54 -04:00
LICENSE libs/libdsp: Add Matrix operations 2026-07-11 14:55:59 -03:00
Makefile !boards: enforce secure ROMFS passwd and TEA key setup 2026-07-09 22:41:11 +08:00
NOTICE Remove the double blank line from source files 2022-02-20 20:10:14 +01:00
README.md ci/testing: Add MemBrowse Integration 2026-06-18 12:07:41 -03:00
ReleaseNotes Documentation: move ReleaseNotes 2023-09-26 20:41:00 +08:00

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Apache NuttX is a real-time operating system (RTOS) with an emphasis on standards compliance and small footprint. Scalable from 8-bit to 64-bit microcontroller environments, the primary governing standards in NuttX are POSIX and ANSI standards. Additional standard APIs from Unix and other common RTOSs (such as VxWorks) are adopted for functionality not available under these standards, or for functionality that is not appropriate for deeply-embedded environments (such as fork()).

For brevity, many parts of the documentation will refer to Apache NuttX as simply NuttX.

Getting Started

First time on NuttX? Read the Getting Started guide! If you don't have a board available, NuttX has its own simulator that you can run on terminal.

Documentation

You can find the current NuttX documentation on the Documentation Page.

Alternatively, you can build the documentation yourself by following the Documentation Build Instructions.

The old NuttX documentation is still available in the Apache wiki.

Supported Boards

NuttX supports a wide variety of platforms. See the full list on the Supported Platforms page.

Contributing

If you wish to contribute to the NuttX project, read the Contributing guidelines for information on Git usage, coding standard, workflow and the NuttX principles.

License

The code in this repository is under either the Apache 2 license, or a license compatible with the Apache 2 license. See the License Page for more information.