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Re: [Xen-devel] kbdif

To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] kbdif
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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:42:04 +0100
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Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

[...]
> Is there a reason for requiring fb and kbd to be initialised "in
> parallel"?  I mean, hw/xenfb.c requires the kbd to be created, then
> the fb to be created, then the kbd to be initialized, then the fb to be
> initialized, then the kbd to be connected, then the fb to be connected.
>
> I would have thought that creating/initializing/connecting kbd first and
> then eventually fb would be allowed.
>
> Samuel

I guess it could be done that way too.

The state machine in hw/xenfb.c has the code in execution order, to
make it easier to read in one forward pass.  And it groups the kbd and
fb steps together, to highlight their similarities.

Any problems with this execution order?

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