From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 11 17:18:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E76F16A403 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:18:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nsouch@free.fr) Received: from smtp6-g19.free.fr (smtp6-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D326E43D66 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:11:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nsouch@free.fr) Received: from smtp (lns-bzn-32-82-254-9-65.adsl.proxad.net [82.254.9.65]) by smtp6-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E982425FF for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:11:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 18048 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Oct 2006 17:05:54 -0000 Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:05:54 +0200 From: Nicolas Souchu To: Hans Petter Selasky , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061011170554.GA17513@breizh> References: <20061007185333.38388.qmail@web32714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061007185333.38388.qmail@web32714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:33:22 +0000 Cc: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Keyboard system and Giant X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:18:49 -0000 On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 08:53:33PM +0200, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > Hello; > > FWIW, anyone planning to work in the keyboard or mouse systems is warned to > look at the KII portions of KGI4BSD first. The main reference is the P4 > repository but there is some documentation here: > http://wikitest.freebsd.org/KGI Well, the wiki pages have been written long ago. Everything "recent" is now on www.kgi-project.org > Nicholas has been able to run FreeBSD's console multihead using KGI. We are Proof of concept is only available on i386 architecture. > currently out of developer time, but the idea will be to merge KII somewhen in > the future so we can focus on further developments and improvements on the > graphic part while we start enjoying some of the benefits of the better > abstraction. Anyone interested in KGI/KII can ask for further details on the concepts. Look at http://kgi.sourceforge.net/download.html for even more details (code). Have fun. Nicholas