Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 11:25:19 -0200 From: "Danilo E. Gondolfo" <danilo@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Macbook touchpad driver Message-ID: <52ECF5BF.80701@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <52E4C512.3080402@gmail.com> References: <CAE2MNThu3gQiJU8=whBfQLPa_-__TRGJKoa94f9MN5quN_hibw@mail.gmail.com> <52E4ACEE.6020207@mu.org> <52E4C512.3080402@gmail.com>
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On 01/26/14 06:19, Rohit Grover wrote: > On 01/26/2014 07:36 AM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> Can you list which models would work best for you? >> > I developed the atp driver using a Macbook4,1; which is fairly outdated. > > A bit of reading shows that the touchpads on modern Macbooks use > BCM5974, which "reports both mouse and keyboard events via different > interfaces of the same usb device." > [https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/input/bcm5974.txt]. This is > different from the original atp hardware, and there might be some > additional work required here. > > I'd prefer to add support for something recent. Referring to the sources > of the bcm5974 driver in linux, I find we should aim for something at > least as recent as a MacbookPro8 (unibody, March 2011) or MacbookAir3,2 > (unibody, late 2010). > > thanks, > Hello, One similar driver was committed on head [1]. Do you think that these two drivers can be merged? Danilo. [1] - http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=261260
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