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diff --git a/docs/system/device-emulation.rst b/docs/system/device-emulation.rst
index 8d4a1821fa..4491c4cbf7 100644
--- a/docs/system/device-emulation.rst
+++ b/docs/system/device-emulation.rst
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ Emulated Devices
    devices/ccid.rst
    devices/cxl.rst
    devices/ivshmem.rst
+   devices/keyboard.rst
    devices/net.rst
    devices/nvme.rst
    devices/usb.rst
diff --git a/docs/system/devices/keyboard.rst b/docs/system/devices/keyboard.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a8f9fbebae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/system/devices/keyboard.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+.. _keyboard:
+
+Sparc32 keyboard
+----------------
+SUN Type 4, 5 and 5c keyboards have dip switches to choose the language layout
+of the keyboard. Solaris makes an ioctl to query the value of the dipswitches
+and uses that value to select keyboard layout. Also the SUN bios like the one
+in the file ss5.bin uses this value to support at least some keyboard layouts.
+However, the OpenBIOS provided with qemu is hardcoded to always use an
+US keyboard layout.
+
+With the escc.chnA-sunkbd-layout driver property it is possible to select
+keyboard layout. Example:
+
+-global escc.chnA-sunkbd-layout=de
+
+Depending on type of keyboard, the keyboard can have 6 or 5 dip-switches to
+select keyboard layout, giving up to 64 different layouts. Not all
+combinations are supported by Solaris and even less by Sun OpenBoot BIOS.
+
+The dip switch settings can be given as hexadecimal number, decimal number
+or in some cases as a language string. Examples:
+
+-global escc.chnA-sunkbd-layout=0x2b
+
+-global escc.chnA-sunkbd-layout=43
+
+-global escc.chnA-sunkbd-layout=sv
+
+The above 3 examples all select a swedish keyboard layout. Table 3-15 at
+https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/806-6642/new-43/index.html explains which
+keytable file is used for different dip switch settings. The information
+in that table can be summarized in this table:
+
+.. list-table:: Language selection values for escc.chnA-sunkbd-layout
+   :widths: 10 10 10
+   :header-rows: 1
+
+   * - Hexadecimal value
+     - Decimal value
+     - Language code
+   * - 0x21
+     - 33
+     - en-us
+   * - 0x23
+     - 35
+     - fr
+   * - 0x24
+     - 36
+     - da
+   * - 0x25
+     - 37
+     - de
+   * - 0x26
+     - 38
+     - it
+   * - 0x27
+     - 39
+     - nl
+   * - 0x28
+     - 40
+     - no
+   * - 0x29
+     - 41
+     - pt
+   * - 0x2a
+     - 42
+     - es
+   * - 0x2b
+     - 43
+     - sv
+   * - 0x2c
+     - 44
+     - fr-ch
+   * - 0x2d
+     - 45
+     - de-ch
+   * - 0x2e
+     - 46
+     - en-gb
+   * - 0x2f
+     - 47
+     - ko
+   * - 0x30
+     - 48
+     - tw
+   * - 0x31
+     - 49
+     - ja
+   * - 0x32
+     - 50
+     - fr-ca
+   * - 0x33
+     - 51
+     - hu
+   * - 0x34
+     - 52
+     - pl
+   * - 0x35
+     - 53
+     - cz
+   * - 0x36
+     - 54
+     - ru
+   * - 0x37
+     - 55
+     - lv
+   * - 0x38
+     - 56
+     - tr
+   * - 0x39
+     - 57
+     - gr
+   * - 0x3a
+     - 58
+     - ar
+   * - 0x3b
+     - 59
+     - lt
+   * - 0x3c
+     - 60
+     - nl-be
+   * - 0x3c
+     - 60
+     - be
+
+Not all dip switch values have a corresponding language code and both "be" and
+"nl-be" correspond to the same dip switch value. By default, if no value is
+given to escc.chnA-sunkbd-layout 0x21 (en-us) will be used.
diff --git a/docs/system/target-sparc.rst b/docs/system/target-sparc.rst
index b55f8d09e9..9ec8c90c14 100644
--- a/docs/system/target-sparc.rst
+++ b/docs/system/target-sparc.rst
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ QEMU emulates the following sun4m peripherals:
 -  Non Volatile RAM M48T02/M48T08
 
 -  Slave I/O: timers, interrupt controllers, Zilog serial ports,
-   keyboard and power/reset logic
+   :ref:`keyboard` and power/reset logic
 
 -  ESP SCSI controller with hard disk and CD-ROM support