Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:03:04 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Generic 'input device' layer Message-ID: <93101.1100246584@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:49:22 %2B0100." <20041112074922.GA727@loge.nixsys.be>
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In message <20041112074922.GA727@loge.nixsys.be>, Philip Paeps writes: >I've been spending the last few weeks writing and hacking touchscreen drivers >in the Linux kernel for one of my clients. Thanks to the simple 'input core' >framework, this was pretty easy to do. It wasn't fun, but it was easy. > >Trying to port these drivers to FreeBSD is a lot more painful than it should >be, and I'm finding myself duplicating heaps of code (translating absolute >coordinates to dx/dy motions, mapping buttons, etc). > >Has anyone else tried to write something like 'input core' for FreeBSD? A >quick Google doesn't turn up anything of particular interest. > >Basically, I'm looking for a way to get from hardware events to something >syscons will understand, without having to do all sorts of really disgusting >magic in sys/isa/psm.c or usr.sbin/moused/moused.c. > >If no one else is working on this, I'd like to solicit ideas for what others >would like this interface to look like, and I'll go and write it myself :-) Well, I think that somebody tried something of the kind, but after I spent a day in syscons I can say that it wasn't a success. If you think you can improve on the tangled mess we have there now, I think it would be a great thing. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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