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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>, kraxel@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] monitor: intervally send down events to guest in hold time
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:03:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51753505.9020107@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130422084350.17b2941b@redhat.com>

Il 22/04/2013 14:43, Luiz Capitulino ha scritto:
>> > 
>> > You're right.  The typematic delay/rate is implemented within the i8042
>> > keyboard microcontroller (QEMU does not implement that register).
>> > 
>> > It is possible that software ignores interrupts for a key that is
>> > already down, and reimplements autorepeat in software, but your patch is
>> > correct.
> But isn't this patch the equivalent of repeatedly pressing and releasing a
> key? Shouldn't this be implemented at a lower-level layer like the input
> subsystem?

No, this patch is implementing what the microcontroller does, i.e. 10
presses + 1 release.  I'm not sure it is the right level to do it (the
rate/delay should be at least customizable from the board), but the
logic is right and if someone else needs more configurability we can add
it later.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-22 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-19  4:44 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] monitor: intervally send down events to guest in hold time Amos Kong
2013-04-20 16:06 ` Eric Blake
2013-04-22  7:32   ` Amos Kong
2013-04-22  8:09     ` Amos Kong
2013-04-22  9:33       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-22 12:43         ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-04-22 13:03           ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-04-22 13:35             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-04-22 14:32               ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-22 15:20                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-04-22 15:41                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-22 14:02             ` Anthony Liguori
2013-04-22 14:22               ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-04-23  2:24               ` Amos Kong
2013-04-22  8:25     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/input.c: replace magic numbers by macros Amos Kong
2013-04-22 16:25     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] monitor: intervally send down events to guest in hold time Eric Blake
2013-05-14 12:42 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-05-14 14:55   ` Anthony Liguori
2013-05-15  8:13     ` Amos Kong

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