Re: implement about virtio-keyboard

[Zhu Yijun <lovemrd@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the update.

Now the usb tablet and keyboard are the only two usb devices on
aarch64, so I want to eliminate the "qemu-xhci" controller.

I even think the situation that something more lightweight VMM instead
of QEMU may not support any USB controller, then virtio-input support
in UEFI is necessary.

So if I want to implement this feature, can you give me some advice? I
see there are several keyboards in edk2,
VirtualKeyboardDxe/VirtualKeyboard.c looks more simple than usbkbd,

can it be used as an example for reference?

Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> 于2021年2月23日周二 下午10:47写道：
>
> On 02/23/21 09:48, Zhu Yijun wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >     I boot vm with the virtio keyboard on aarch64. It looks UEFI lacks
> > support for the virtio keyboard, so I can't do any keyboard input
> > before the linux kernel driver loads, i.e. edit the grub boot menu. Is
> > there any plan to support it?
>
> Not on my side.
>
> My team discussed virtio-input's relevance for ArmVirtQemu in September
> 2016.
>
> We decided not to bother about it, because:
>
> (1) XHCI was virtualization-friendly, both performance-wise and
> configuration-wise (unlike EHCI),
>
> (2) QEMU and libvirt were going to gain (... or had just gained ...)
> XHCI support, on aarch64 / "virt".
>
>
> So today, just use a "qemu-xhci" controller in your domain config
> please, in combination with a USB keyboard. (If you define a new aarch64
> domain with libvirt, this should happen out of the box for you.)
>
> ArmVirtQemu includes all the edk2 drivers necessary for driving those
> devices, and ArmVirtQemu's PlatformBootManagerLib instance will connect
> the USB keyboard automatically. There shouldn't be a problem when typing
> in "grub".
>
> Thanks
> Laszlo
>
> >     I find UsbKeyboardDevice attach on UsbIO which implements its
> > protocol interface structure(such as UsbGetInterfaceDescriptor,
> > UsbAsyncInterruptTransfer) defined by UEFI spec, but virtio not. So is
> > there some way to implement similar interfaces?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Cheng Mao
> >
>