Re: [PATCH v5] Emulate dip switch language layout settings on SUN keyboard

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 03:38:53PM +0100, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
> https://patchew.org/QEMU/20230114125029.7395a547.hc981@poolhem.se/ 
> complains that "patch is empty", so here is my fifth attempt...
> 
> regards Henrik
> 
> SUN Type 4, 5 and 5c keyboards have dip switches to choose the language
> layout of the keyboard. Solaris makes an ioctl to query the value of the
> dipswitches and uses that value to select keyboard layout. Also the SUN
> bios like the one in the file ss5.bin uses this value to support at least
> some keyboard layouts. However, the OpenBIOS provided with qemu is
> hardcoded to always use an US keyboard layout.
> 
> Before this patch, qemu allways gave dip switch value 0x21 (US keyboard),
> this patch uses the command line switch "-k" (keyboard layout) to select
> dip switch value. A table is used to lookup values from arguments like:
> 
> -k fr
> -k es
> 
> But the patch also accepts numeric dip switch values directly to the -k
> switch:
> 
> -k 0x2b
> -k 43

I'm not convinced this is a sensible thing to do

The '-k' argument / keyboard_layout  global in QEMU is used to control
the keyboard layout used by the various UI frontends in QEMU, when they
are converting input events received from the user into QMEU's internal
keycodes.

Overload this to also change the virtual hardware settings, which is
guest ABI sensitive feels like a bad idea, given that we usually aim to
separate backend and frontend configuration tunables.

IOW, it looks like there are two distinct configuration axes that need
to be controllable independently.

Since it is a hardware property then the obvious place to put this would
be as a property in the hardware device - ie the escc device. This could
then be set with -global escc.sunkbd_layout=XXX  IIUC.


> 
> Both values above are the same and select swedish keyboard as explained in
> table 3-15 at
> https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/806-6642/new-43/index.html
> 
> Unless you want to do a full Solaris installation but happen to have
> access to a bios file, the easiest way to test that the patch works is to:
> 
> qemu-system-sparc -k sv -bios /path/to/ss5.bin
> 
> If you already happen to have a Solaris installation in a qemu disk image
> file you can easily try different keyboard layouts after this patch is
> applied.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Henrik Carlqvist <hc1245@poolhem.se>
> ---
>  hw/char/escc.c | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/char/escc.c b/hw/char/escc.c
> index 17a908c59b..53022ccf39 100644
> --- a/hw/char/escc.c
> +++ b/hw/char/escc.c
> @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
>  #include "qemu/module.h"
>  #include "hw/char/escc.h"
>  #include "ui/console.h"
> +#include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
> +#include "qemu/cutils.h"
>  #include "trace.h"
>  
>  /*
> @@ -190,6 +192,7 @@
>  #define R_MISC1I 14
>  #define R_EXTINT 15
>  
> +static unsigned char sun_keyboard_layout_dip_switch(void);
>  static void handle_kbd_command(ESCCChannelState *s, int val);
>  static int serial_can_receive(void *opaque);
>  static void serial_receive_byte(ESCCChannelState *s, int ch);
> @@ -846,6 +849,75 @@ static QemuInputHandler sunkbd_handler = {
>      .event = sunkbd_handle_event,
>  };
>  
> +static unsigned char sun_keyboard_layout_dip_switch(void)
> +{
> +    /* Return the value of the dip-switches in a SUN Type 5 keyboard */
> +    static unsigned char ret = 0xff;
> +
> +    if ((ret == 0xff) && keyboard_layout) {
> +        int i;
> +        struct layout_values {
> +            const char *lang;
> +            unsigned char dip;
> +        } languages[] =
> +    /* Dip values from table 3-16 Layouts for Type 4, 5, and 5c Keyboards */
> +            {
> +                {"en-us", 0x21}, /* U.S.A. (US5.kt) */
> +                                 /* 0x22 is some other US (US_UNIX5.kt)*/
> +                {"fr",    0x23}, /* France (France5.kt) */
> +                {"da",    0x24}, /* Denmark (Denmark5.kt) */
> +                {"de",    0x25}, /* Germany (Germany5.kt) */
> +                {"it",    0x26}, /* Italy (Italy5.kt) */
> +                {"nl",    0x27}, /* The Netherlands (Netherland5.kt) */
> +                {"no",    0x28}, /* Norway (Norway.kt) */
> +                {"pt",    0x29}, /* Portugal (Portugal5.kt) */
> +                {"es",    0x2a}, /* Spain (Spain5.kt) */
> +                {"sv",    0x2b}, /* Sweden (Sweden5.kt) */
> +                {"fr-ch", 0x2c}, /* Switzerland/French (Switzer_Fr5.kt) */
> +                {"de-ch", 0x2d}, /* Switzerland/German (Switzer_Ge5.kt) */
> +                {"en-gb", 0x2e}, /* Great Britain (UK5.kt) */
> +                {"ko",    0x2f}, /* Korea (Korea5.kt) */
> +                {"tw",    0x30}, /* Taiwan (Taiwan5.kt) */
> +                {"ja",    0x31}, /* Japan (Japan5.kt) */
> +                {"fr-ca", 0x32}, /* Canada/French (Canada_Fr5.kt) */
> +                {"hu",    0x33}, /* Hungary (Hungary5.kt) */
> +                {"pl",    0x34}, /* Poland (Poland5.kt) */
> +                {"cz",    0x35}, /* Czech (Czech5.kt) */
> +                {"ru",    0x36}, /* Russia (Russia5.kt) */
> +                {"lv",    0x37}, /* Latvia (Latvia5.kt) */
> +                {"tr",    0x38}, /* Turkey-Q5 (TurkeyQ5.kt) */
> +                {"gr",    0x39}, /* Greece (Greece5.kt) */
> +                {"ar",    0x3a}, /* Arabic (Arabic5.kt) */
> +                {"lt",    0x3b}, /* Lithuania (Lithuania5.kt) */
> +                {"nl-be", 0x3c}, /* Belgium (Belgian5.kt) */
> +                {"be",    0x3c}, /* Belgium (Belgian5.kt) */
> +            };
> +
> +        for (i = 0;
> +             i < sizeof(languages) / sizeof(struct layout_values);
> +             i++) {
> +            if (!strcmp(keyboard_layout, languages[i].lang)) {
> +                ret = languages[i].dip;
> +                return ret;
> +            }
> +        }
> +        /* Found no known language code */
> +
> +        if ((keyboard_layout[0] >= '0') && (keyboard_layout[0] <= '9')) {
> +            unsigned int tmp;
> +            /* As a fallback we also accept numeric dip switch value */
> +            if (!qemu_strtoui(keyboard_layout, NULL, 0, &tmp)) {
> +                ret = (unsigned char)tmp;
> +            }
> +        }
> +    }
> +    if (ret == 0xff) {
> +        /* Final fallback if keyboard_layout was not set or recognized */
> +        ret = 0x21; /* en-us layout */
> +    }
> +    return ret;
> +}
> +
>  static void handle_kbd_command(ESCCChannelState *s, int val)
>  {
>      trace_escc_kbd_command(val);
> @@ -867,7 +939,7 @@ static void handle_kbd_command(ESCCChannelState *s, int val)
>      case 0xf:
>          clear_queue(s);
>          put_queue(s, 0xfe);
> -        put_queue(s, 0x21); /*  en-us layout */
> +        put_queue(s, sun_keyboard_layout_dip_switch());
>          break;
>      default:
>          break;
> -- 
> 2.35.1
> 
> 

With regards,
Daniel
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