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<concept id="GUID-2E42E7EA-FED8-522C-8A5F-F65D799476C9" xml:lang="en"><title>Keyboard Driver Implementation Tutorial</title><shortdesc>This topic describes how to implement an interrupt driven

keyboard driver. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

<p>The steps are: </p>

<ul>

<li id="GUID-BC3A7259-A750-5D5F-8363-6F8BBC03E8EB"><p>Implement the

driver entry point function and initialisation code. This function

is called when the extension is loaded. </p> <p>The initialisation

code binds the hardware interrupt to the Interrupt Service Routine

(ISR) and enables the interrupt. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-3A050F21-FE10-5C0F-8BFE-C44692C0BDE2"><p>Implement an

ISR to handle key events. The ISR queues a keyboard DFC. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-6580FC61-3D9E-5370-88AD-50CC1FB28E5F"><p>Implement a

keyboard DFC. This function interrogates the keyboard, converts the

scancode to a keypress event, and places it onto the kernel's event

queue. </p> </li>

</ul>

<section id="GUID-B4B6A6C6-39D0-49FC-A630-1979368056B0"><title>Set

Up</title> <p>In the template reference board port, the <filepath>.mmp</filepath> file for the keyboard driver is <filepath>...\template_variant\exkey_inttemplate.mmp</filepath>. This is one of the PRJ_MMPFILES referenced in the template variant's <filepath>bld.inf</filepath> file in the <filepath>...\template_variant\...</filepath> directory, and means that the keyboard driver is built as part of

the Variant. </p> <p>The source for the driver is contained entirely

within <filepath>...\template_variant\specific\keyboard_interrupt.cpp</filepath>. </p> <p>The driver is defined as a kernel extension and is loaded

early in the boot sequence. </p> </section>

<section id="GUID-547A2791-82D8-4C86-86E6-B4B9CEF04E3B"><title>Entry

point implementation</title> <p>The driver functionality is encapsulated

by the <codeph>DKeyboardTemplate</codeph> class, and an instance of

this is created when the extension is loaded. </p> <p>As the driver

is a kernel extension, it must have a <codeph>DECLARE_STANDARD_EXTENSION()</codeph> statement. In the template port, this is implemented: </p> <codeblock id="GUID-69F707CF-642D-5D03-AC78-4914549C4413" xml:space="preserve">DECLARE_STANDARD_EXTENSION()

    {

    __KTRACE_OPT(KEXTENSION,Kern::Printf("Starting keyboard driver"));

    // create keyboard driver

    TInt r=KErrNoMemory;

    DKeyboardTemplate* pK=new DKeyboardTemplate;

    if (pK)

        r=pK->Create();

    __KTRACE_OPT(KEXTENSION,Kern::Printf("Returns %d",r));

    return r;

    }

</codeblock> <p>It simply creates an instance of the <codeph>DKeyboardTemplate</codeph> class and then performs a second-phase initialisation, which is

a common pattern in Symbian platform and third party applications. </p> <p><b>Initialisation on construction</b> </p> <p>The constructor

of the <codeph>DKeyboardTemplate</codeph> class has the following

signature: </p> <codeblock id="GUID-5D247843-FF8C-5157-8BE5-53B5883F00B2" xml:space="preserve">DKeyboardTemplate::DKeyboardTemplate()

    :    DPowerHandler(KLitKeyboard), 

        iMsgQ(rxMsg,this,NULL,1),

        iPowerUpDfc(PowerUpDfcFn,this,6),

        iPowerDownDfc(PowerDownDfcFn,this,7),

        iEventDfc(EventDfcFn,this,1)

    {

    }

</codeblock> <p>See also <xref href="GUID-3C34724F-B476-5329-B0B1-6D5A34294979.dita">Interrupt Dispatcher

Tutorial</xref>. </p> </section>

<section id="GUID-F11265AA-D280-4B4E-92DA-38F12E7D5E30"><title> Interrupt

Service Routine (ISR) implementation</title> <p>The ISR (Interrupt

Service Routine) just schedules the DFC that handles the keypress.

It can also optionally contribute the timing of key interrupts as

a source of random data for the Random Number Generator (see <xref href="GUID-8290AAF0-577C-51D2-8AC1-0D37A10F45CB.dita">CSPRNG Implementation

in Kernel</xref>). On the template reference board, this is implemented

as: </p> <codeblock id="GUID-866CEA65-78AC-5A2C-AF08-29DF8FE53DD5" xml:space="preserve">void DKeyboardTemplate::Isr(TAny* aPtr)

	{

	Interrupt::Disable(KIntIdKeyboard);

	// Add the timing of key interrupts as entropy data for the RNG

	Interrupt::AddTimingEntropy();

	k.iEventDfc.Add();

	}

</codeblock> <p>The ISR disables the keyboard interrupt, as repeated

ISRs are not allowed to queue further DFC routines. </p> </section>

<section id="GUID-E53E0FE1-3100-4B8B-BE90-250C1BDDE15C"><title>DFC

function implementation</title> <p>The DFC is the function <codeph>DKeyboardTemplate::EventDfcFn</codeph> which is implemented as a

call to <codeph>DKeyboardTemplate::EventDfc()</codeph>. </p> <codeblock id="GUID-2A1B334A-441E-57C3-B40C-603D992F934F" xml:space="preserve">void DKeyboardTemplate::EventDfcFn(TAny* aPtr)

    {

    ((DKeyboardTemplate*)aPtr)->EventDfc();

    }

void DKeyboardTemplate::EventDfc()

    {

    __KTRACE_OPT(KHARDWARE,Kern::Printf("DKeyboardTemplate::EventDfc"));

    TInt irq=NKern::DisableAllInterrupts();

    while (IsKeyReady())                        // while there are keys in the controller's output buffer

        {

        NKern::RestoreInterrupts(irq);

        TRawEvent e;

        TUint keyCode=GetKeyCode();                // Read keycodes from controller

        __KTRACE_OPT(KHARDWARE,Kern::Printf("#%02x",keyCode));

        //

        // TO DO: (mandatory)

        //

        // Convert from hardware scancode to EPOC scancode and send the scancode as an event (key pressed or released)

        // as per below EXAMPLE ONLY:

        //

        TUint bareCode=keyCode&~KFlagKeyPressed;

        TUint8 stdKey=convertCode[bareCode];

        if (keyCode&KFlagKeyPressed)

            e.Set(TRawEvent::EKeyUp,stdKey,0);

        else

            e.Set(TRawEvent::EKeyDown,stdKey,0);

        Kern::AddEvent(e);

        NKern::Sleep(1);                        // pause before reading more keycodes

        irq=NKern::DisableAllInterrupts();

        }

    Interrupt::Enable(KIntIdKeyboard);

    NKern::RestoreInterrupts(irq);

    }</codeblock> <p>This: </p> <ul>

<li id="GUID-8A202894-34F8-5E7B-B791-20D4B6C8B914"><p>reads the scan

code data by calling <codeph>DKeyboardTemplate::GetKeyCode()</codeph>  </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-D553B662-F60C-575F-893D-347A9344F9B9"><p>re-enables the

keyboard interrupt, now that the DFC has freed up the input data register </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-BFC75E95-A9AE-584E-8A17-CCAF9C2F5913"><p>translates the

keypress event into a Symbian scancode </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-20BC22AF-C58C-56DC-B777-B5C8681668D6"><p>puts the translated

event on to the event queue. </p> </li>

</ul> </section>

<section id="GUID-437735D9-916C-4308-913C-3839CC7F0002"><title>See

also</title> <p> <xref href="GUID-EB76FAF8-CD4B-5CB6-9F23-C852ED91866F.dita">Concepts</xref>  </p> </section>

</conbody></concept>