Re: [PATCH] USB support

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Dugger, Donald D wrote:
> Anthony-
>
> Not knowing when the move to 0.8.1 will get done (although I know it
> should be soon) I wanted to get this out now, especially since the
> changes aren't that extensive, it's mainly the new USB files.  The
> current Windows guest under VNC is so much better with the USB tablet
> mouse that I thought it was worth the effort to provide this as an
> interim solution.
>
> I must have missed your SDL patch, I'll go find it.
>
> Tnx for the pointer about the evdev, I'll have to try that (although I'm
> pretty sure `gpm' still doesn't work with the USB tablet).
>   

BTW, balrug I believe has a patch floating around to render CGA mode in 
ncurses.  Even without this, it still should be possible to add 
host-copy support to QEMU (just by tracking the mouse selection and see 
what's in the CGA buffer memory).

Of course, that wouldn't work for someone in the framebuffer...

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Anthony Liguori [mailto:aliguori@us.ibm.com] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 1:56 PM
>> To: Dugger, Donald D
>> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] USB support
>>
>> Donald D. Dugger wrote:
>>     
>>> This patch backports the USB support from QEMU 0.8.1 to the 
>>>       
>> current Xen
>>     
>>> device model.  To support USB there are two new optional config lines
>>> that can be added to the guest config file:
>>>
>>>     usb=1
>>> 	This will enable USB without defining a specific USB device.
>>> 	This option is assumed and not needed if the `usbdevice' option
>>> 	is given.
>>>
>>>     usbdevce='device'
>>> 	This will enable USB and also enable support for the 
>>>       
>> given device.
>>     
>>> 	Currently, the only two devices are `mouse' (a PS/2 mouse) and
>>> 	`tablet' (an absolute pointing device).  The advantage 
>>>       
>> of `tablet'
>>     
>>> 	is that Windows guests will automatically recognize and 
>>>       
>> support this
>>     
>>> 	device so specifying the config line:
>>>
>>> 		usbdevice='tablet'
>>>
>>> 	will create a mouse that works transparently with Windows guests
>>> 	under VNC.  (Linux doesn't recognize the USB tablet yet so Linux
>>> 	guests under VNC will still need the Summagraphics emulation.)
>>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Don Dugger <donald.d.dugger@intel.com>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Why not just wait until the QEMU version is ported to the newest one?
>>
>> BTW, you want to grab evtouch for USB tablet support under Linux.  I 
>> also have a patch which will be in the next version of evtouch 
>> that adds 
>> mouse wheel and 3rd button support to evtouch.
>>
>> You're also missing another patch I posted to qemu-devel that fixes a 
>> strange SDL capture problem with relative mouse mode that 
>> Fabrice hasn't 
>> picked up yet.  I'd really suggest moving all of QEMU up because this 
>> the USB emulation is under development still so you'll have to 
>> be doing 
>> an awful lot of back porting.
>>
>> The newest versions of Xorg will just work (with evdev).
>>
>> http://stz-softwaretechnik.com/~ke/touchscreen/evtouch.html
>>
>> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/aliguori/evtouch-middle-scroll.diff
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anthony Liguori
>>
>>