Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ps2: add support of auto-repeat

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 16/05/2013 17:17, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
> On 16 May 2013 16:09, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> ...  In XWindows, you get a KeyRelease for every KeyPress Event. In X,
>> it looks something like this:
>>
>> PRPRPRPRPRPRPRPR
> 
> Shouldn't we be abstracting this platform difference
> out in the ui layer, rather than having to deal with it
> in the ps2 device model? That is, we should define what
> our key-repeat model is for the QEMU keyboard-event-handler
> API, and then make sure all our UI frontends (gtk, sdl,
> cocoa, etc) do what we require...

Yes, I am asking Amos to check which of our frontends comply.

It needs to be checked in the host, because Linux guests emulate
autorepeat anyway.  Or you can test with FreeDOS.

Paolo