Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Paravirt framebuffer backend tools [2/5]

[Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@xxxxxxxx>]

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>> (2) Simply use the host's raw keys.
>>
>>     The guest needs to understand the host's raw keys, and map them if
>>     they differ from its own idea of raw keys.  At this time, the only
>>     idea of raw keys in town is Linux keycodes, so no mapping is
>>     necessary.
>>
>>     Nice: simple & stupid.
>>
>>     Unless I misunderstand Anthony, that's what rdesktop and qemu do.
> 
> <unimportant side node>
>   Well, there are some corner cases where you can't easily get the hosts
>   raw keys.  In that case qemu tries to translate the keysyms back to
>   raw keycodes using the maps in /usr/share/qemu/keymaps.  See also qemu
>   manpage, "-k" switch.
> </>
> 
> But, yes, using linux keycodes as wire encoding IMHO is the way to go.
> 
> cheers,
>   Gerd
> 

So, perhaps the patch I post sometime ago on this subject should be useful ?

Laurent
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