Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:28:08 +0100 From: Per Hedeland <per@hedeland.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life Message-ID: <6ab5505c-27e5-53e1-cc5b-9061684ccb9e@hedeland.org> In-Reply-To: <20200221170929.ih2dqgmgb5fa3i2k@sea-ll-10936> References: <ead08f6c-3dc4-210d-b321-549eb0ad721f@malikania.fr> <20200220154101.GA53326@ghostyhead.chthonixia.net> <1d1cb3e8-ee64-41a7-ac5c-919d3985bd57@malikania.fr> <CAPyFy2A1SP3X1vizjjVDg3ynw5W7Kepf7Dp%2BYO3yMYtfwgr-=g@mail.gmail.com> <d9cad2f9-34ea-7bdd-d5d5-5d0a26512221@hedeland.org> <CAFYkXjnW=Wtnx0nVBMGbE-PR5Bh2W3-Wv%2B62Of_q=UZv7Y8==Q@mail.gmail.com> <5d661e60-c767-d03f-4882-75d4a7010924@hedeland.org> <CAFYkXj=Uo6M5sQj256juXNwvf2Zz0L%2BWpWCuuG=AWHwStL=vEg@mail.gmail.com> <20200221074003.ac92947e587090803bd4d6da@sohara.org> <CAFYkXjmze5y=KVkXoba_gywmX_24pWjfuzkuoyUnjt3wmwNSuA@mail.gmail.com> <20200221170929.ih2dqgmgb5fa3i2k@sea-ll-10936>
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On 2020-02-21 18:09, Ihor Antonov wrote: > On 2020-02-21 09:51, Tomasz CEDRO wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 8:40 AM Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote: >>> On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:08:23 +0100 >>> Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote: >>>> This is clearly something that is very missing in the Handbook / WIKI >>>> / synaptics manpages! >>> Perfect opportunity to submit a documentation patch. >> >> Indeed! :-) https://github.com/wulf7/iichid/issues/18 >> >> This IICHID is a total fresh thing (and still experimental)! It had >> initial release just 9 days ago and I did not head about this project >> before. So nice to talk with smart people, thank you! :-) >> > > iichid looks very similar in purpose to libinput [1]. What are > similarities/differences? I wonoder what is the motivation for the > project? Well, my limited understanding (I haven't looked at the code for either iichid or libinput) is that this module gives libinput something to use for a certain class of hardware - it's not an *alternative*. How could libinput use hardware that isn't supported by the OS kernel? If you read my writeup earlier in the thread, I needed both this driver and x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput to get my touchpad to work. --Per
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