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Date:      Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:40:09 +0100
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org>
To:        Rohit Grover <rgrover1@gmail.com>
Cc:        rwatson@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Apple Touchpad driver for Macbook
Message-ID:  <CC4C9F74-8B87-47C6-A497-62C8262FE7C5@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <426bed110909200405p6a8c98fn14ff5db01149b3a3@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <426bed110909200405p6a8c98fn14ff5db01149b3a3@mail.gmail.com>

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On 20 Sep 2009, at 12:05, Rohit Grover wrote:

> Hello Everybody,
>
> I have developed a driver for the Touchpad device on Apple Macbooks.
> Mine is a Macbook 3,1, and I run FreeBSD7.2 on it--so testing has so
> far been limited to this configuration. In its present state, the
> driver supports multi-tap, edge detection, and movement smoothening.
>
> You may get the driver from git://github.com/rgrover/freebsd-atp.git.
> Instructions for installing and using the driver may be obtained from:
> http://wiki.github.com/rgrover/freebsd-atp
>
> I have put in significant work in the area of movement smoothening,
> and in setting up an infrastructure for tracking individual finger
> strokes (which may later be evolved into gesture detection). There may
> be potential for this code to form the basis for a generic touchpad
> driver.
>
> I have been using this driver for a few weeks now. It is stable.
> Please help me test this driver for a wider range of Apple hardware.
> I will also be porting this code to 8-CURRENT once I get that to boot
> on my MacBook.
>
> I would like to see this driver committed to FreeBSD. I request the
> committers to please guide me in this process.

Great work. I haven't seen the code but this looks promising. If you  
can port it to FreeBSD 8's USB stack, we can start thinking about  
committing it.

Thanks,
--
Rui Paulo




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