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Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Tomas Carnecky, le Thu 10 Jul 2008 01:27:49 +0200, a =C3=A9crit :
>> Why is there OS (X11/Windows) specific code in the SDL frontend? And w=
hy=20
>> does qemu need keymaps anyway?
>=20
> 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.

Well, every 'frontend' needs some kind of keymap table to map the events=20
into bios scancodes. But there is no need to have user-editable keymap=20
files. This mapping can be done entirely within the qemu code, within=20
each of the frontends.


tom