Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 19:08:52 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47973 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201601091908.u09J8qUO090530@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sat Jan 9 19:08:52 2016 New Revision: 47973 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47973 Log: Add report on touchscreen support for a couple ARM systems, from gonzo Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Sat Jan 9 18:59:03 2016 (r47972) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Sat Jan 9 19:08:52 2016 (r47973) @@ -519,4 +519,43 @@ </task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='kern'> + <title>Touchscreen support for Raspberry Pi and Beaglebone Black</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Oleksandr</given> + <common>Tymoshenko</common> + </name> + <email>gonzo@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=534">Beaglebone Black with 4DCAPE-43T Demo</url> + <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/201510DevSummit/GraphicsStack">Input Stack Plans</url> + <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SummerOfCode2014/evdev_Touchscreens">evdev Port</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>There are two working proof-of-concept drivers for the + AM335x touchscreen and for the official Raspberry Pi's touchscreen + LCD.</p> + + <p>Proper touchscreen support would consist of a userland event + reading API, a kernel event reporting API, and kernel hardware + drivers for specific devices. There is an ongoing effort to port + the Linux evdev API to &os; so applications that use libraries like + libinput or tslib could be used without any major changes. Since + it is not yet complete, I created a naive evdev-like API for both + kernel and tslib and was able to run a demo on a Beaglebone Black + with 4DCAPE-43T.</p> + + <p>Once evdev makes it into the tree, both hardware drivers + can be modified to include "report events" + portions and committed.</p> + </body> + </project> </report>
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