Re: kbdif

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>]

Markus Armbruster, le Thu 14 Feb 2008 09:42:04 +0100, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com> 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.
> 
> Any problems with this execution order?

Yes: in the code I'm currently writing I have

	kbd_dev = init_kbdfront(nodename);
	fb_dev = init_fbfront(nodename, width, height, etc.);

And this can't work currently, I instead have to run init_kbdfront and
init_fbfront in threads so as to get them running in parallel.

Samuel