How do I implement input and output of text in my kernel?

[monsterhunter445]

Hi everybody, I have finally got my first kernel running and I was wondering how I can implement some sort of input and output of text. Because at this moment I can only clear the screen and print out text. So can anyone please show some example code or direct me to some sort of link, because I haven't found anything on the wiki.

[NickJohnson]

You need to write a keyboard driver. This is pretty straightforward: read in from port 0x61 on IRQ1 and map scancodes to characters. (This requires interrupts to be set up properly.) Here's the relevant wiki link: http://wiki.osdev.org/Keyboard

[monsterhunter445]

Thanks for the link, it was really helpful.