Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/9] spice: add keyboard

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 04:49:20PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> >AT (well XT) keycodes aren't that bad a choice, at least if you go for the
> >extended mapping used by the Linux keyboard driver.
> 
> Hmm, as far I know those extended mappings are not standardized.  Uses 
> linux this just as internal representation?  Or can you actually feed a 
> linux guest with them and expect it to work?  How about non-linux guests?

Internally Linux uses Linux keycodes throughout. The keyboard driver
(drivers/char/keyboard.c) has a table that maps Linux keycodes to XT 
keycodes when running in RAW mode that has entries for many of the
internet/multimedia keys. 

IIUC, Microsoft sets out standard XT mappings for internet, multimedia keys,
etc as part of WHQL tests for keyboards. There is a doc hiding somewhere
on the web that details these, but its location escapes me currently. 
I've not  checked whether the extended mappings used by the Linux 
keyboard driver in RAW mode, because it wasn't relevant for my immediate
needs - I just needed to know what the mapping was, not who standardized
it :-)

Regards,
Daniel
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