Emulating Nickel + touch input

[NiMa]

Hi,
I've been working hard these last few days to try to get the Kobo firmware working in a QEMU-system-arm virtual machine (i.e. emulating a Kobo in a x86 PC)

I've successfully (and surprisingly) been able to build a cross-compiled Linux kernel, boot the stock filesystem and firmware of a Glo HD (with a disk image formatted in 3 partitions (rootfs, recoveryfs and onboard), and I gasped when I saw the Nickel setup welcome screen with language selection on a QEMU window. This was quite unexpected and of course it has cleared off many of my concerns in emulating/faking/redirecting a framebuffer to output via VNC or something like that.
I've also successfully got to a BusyBox shell where I can type commands and stuff.

But now that I've got into Nickel, I can't use it at all. Why? Touch input. (of course)
Sure it was not going to be easy... Do someone know how to simulate/emulate touch events that Nickel can understand?

I joined two screenshots of my QEMU window, if that can help you. One shows it in a console output mode, when it uses all the 1024x768 res. and the other shows Nickel covering about half of the screen.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

[shokara]

Hello,

Sorry but I don't know how to emulate touch input in QEMU, but may I ask how you got QEMU to boot into Nickel?

[NiMa]

Originally Posted by shokara

Hello,

Sorry but I don't know how to emulate touch input in QEMU, but may I ask how you got QEMU to boot into Nickel?

It was done in about one week, I had to compile a custom kernel for QEMU and recreate the SD card layout in a qcow2 image. Magically Nickel somehow decided that it would print no problem on the framebuffer, so that was great. But input is the boundary where I stopped. It's the limit. Without possible interaction with Qt, you can't do much but try things in the CLI, which is great but not really the point of having this emulator.