Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] xenfb: Add vkbd-only option

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Owen Smith wrote:
> Adds the ability for a vkbd device to connect without the
> QemuConsole, in order to support a standalone PV mouse and
> keyboard frontend.
> This series adds a new feature flag, which will need adding
> to the xen's include/public/io/kbdif.h

Please do so, I would like that change to be applied to xen before this
series is applied to QEMU.


> "feature-vkbd-standalone" is set to 1 by backends that allow 
> the vkbd device model to connect without requiring a vfb device
> connected. The vkbd device will only bypass the check for
> the vfb device if the frontend sets "request-vkbd-standalone"
> to 1.
> The last 2 patches add a couple of missing input handler
> functions, and uses these to remove a leak in the vkbd device
> model.
> 
> Owen Smith (4):
>   xenfb: Add feature-vkbd-standalone
>   xenfb: Activate mouse handler
>   ui/input: Add activate/remove for keyboard handlers
>   xenfb: Fix leak by adding/removing keyboard handler
> 
>  hw/display/xenfb.c   | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  include/ui/console.h |  2 ++
>  ui/input-legacy.c    | 12 ++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.1.4
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