Re: [PATCH] hw/char/pl011: fix receiving multiple chars

[Zack Marvel <zpmarvel@gmail.com>]

Peter,

Thanks for the quick review. You're right, I misunderstood the API and 
the bug is in ui/gtk.c.

Thanks,
Zack M

On 2/21/21 8:19 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 at 15:04, Zack Marvel <zpmarvel@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> When using the GTK UI with libvte, multicharacter keystrokes are not
>> sent correctly (such as arrow keys). This is not an issue for e.g. the
>> SDL UI because qemu_chr_be_write is called with len=1 for each character
>> (SDL sends more than once keystroke).
>>
>> Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1407808
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zack Marvel <zpmarvel@gmail.com>
> 
>> @@ -300,7 +300,9 @@ static void pl011_put_fifo(void *opaque, uint32_t value)
>>
>>   static void pl011_receive(void *opaque, const uint8_t *buf, int size)
>>   {
>> -    pl011_put_fifo(opaque, *buf);
>> +    for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
>> +        pl011_put_fifo(opaque, buf[i]);
>> +    }
>>   }
> 
> I think this is a bug in whatever is on the other end
> of the chardev connection. The pl011 can_receive routine
> only ever returns 0 or 1, so it is an error for the
> code calling its receive function to ever pass a
> size that is greater than 1.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
>