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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Bug in SDL key event processing
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Tomas Carnecky, le Thu 10 Jul 2008 01:27:49 +0200, a écrit :
> Why is there OS (X11/Windows) specific code in the SDL frontend? And why 
> does qemu need keymaps anyway?

The keymaps are for the VNC case, where you get a keyboard symbol, not a
keycode, so you need to know how to translate back into a scancode.

> I would expect qemu to translate my 
> keypresses to corresponding bios scancodes and do no further processing. 

Yep.

>  If you do that, you won't need the keymaps code, just a table to 
> translate from SDL events to bios scancodes.

In the SDL case that should work indeed.

Samuel