On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:02:19AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > the "standard" is pretty much defined by what the driver can take. If it > > can't parse the protocol then the device is rather useless anyway. > > but really, writing a serial kernel driver is rather trivial and has a > > higher chance of actually working long-term than dragging the old input > > drivers along. > > Except that you need to write a lot of input drivers - for Linux, for > OpenBSD, for NetBSD, for Dragonfly etc.. > > In the Linux case yes you could write an fpit to Linux input layer ldisc > but that only fixes the world for a single OS.
I think Piotr's email was the first time in years that I even heard of someone using this driver. I suspect the number of BSD users of this driver is rather limited but if there's loads of them I'm sure they could step forward and help with testing. Cheers, Peter > Re; polling - a lot of these fpit devices have weird IRQs for the serial, > you may find they are not in fact polled but need a suitable IRQ forcing. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
