From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N7VLA-0000FW-18 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:35:32 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N7VL5-00008z-Ae for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:35:31 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44943 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N7VL5-00008m-6K for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:35:27 -0500 Received: from mail-yw0-f176.google.com ([209.85.211.176]:57856) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N7VL4-0006h6-Rd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:35:26 -0500 Received: by ywh6 with SMTP id 6so2579060ywh.4 for ; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:35:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4AF828A8.50904@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:35:20 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add support for multiple simultaneously used keyboard devices. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Filip Navara Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Filip Navara wrote: > The support for multiple keyboard devices is essential for emulating embedded boards where multiple input devices are present (eg. keypad and rotary encoder) which are implemented using separate QEMU devices. > > Signed-off-by: Filip Navara > What boards would we actually expose multiple keyboards with? Moreover, we're not doing anything useful here. We're just repeating a single keypress to multiple keyboards which seems rather hackish. Regards, Anthony Liguori