Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:40:09 +0100 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org> To: Rohit Grover <rgrover1@gmail.com> Cc: rwatson@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apple Touchpad driver for Macbook Message-ID: <CC4C9F74-8B87-47C6-A497-62C8262FE7C5@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <426bed110909200405p6a8c98fn14ff5db01149b3a3@mail.gmail.com> References: <426bed110909200405p6a8c98fn14ff5db01149b3a3@mail.gmail.com>
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On 20 Sep 2009, at 12:05, Rohit Grover wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > I have developed a driver for the Touchpad device on Apple Macbooks. > Mine is a Macbook 3,1, and I run FreeBSD7.2 on it--so testing has so > far been limited to this configuration. In its present state, the > driver supports multi-tap, edge detection, and movement smoothening. > > You may get the driver from git://github.com/rgrover/freebsd-atp.git. > Instructions for installing and using the driver may be obtained from: > http://wiki.github.com/rgrover/freebsd-atp > > I have put in significant work in the area of movement smoothening, > and in setting up an infrastructure for tracking individual finger > strokes (which may later be evolved into gesture detection). There may > be potential for this code to form the basis for a generic touchpad > driver. > > I have been using this driver for a few weeks now. It is stable. > Please help me test this driver for a wider range of Apple hardware. > I will also be porting this code to 8-CURRENT once I get that to boot > on my MacBook. > > I would like to see this driver committed to FreeBSD. I request the > committers to please guide me in this process. Great work. I haven't seen the code but this looks promising. If you can port it to FreeBSD 8's USB stack, we can start thinking about committing it. Thanks, -- Rui Paulo
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