Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:55:34 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: scottl@FreeBSD.org Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/vkbd vkbd.c vkbd_var.h src/sys/modules/vkbd Makefile Message-ID: <20041116.145534.79867788.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <419A4F8F.8000509@freebsd.org> References: <419A492A.7020602@freebsd.org> <bb4a86c704111610513b1af34a@mail.gmail.com> <419A4F8F.8000509@freebsd.org>
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Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: I guess I'm having a hard time picturing how a bluetooth keyboard works.
: Is it something that you attach in place of a normal PS2 or USB
: keyboard, or is it something that merely augments the real keyboard? If
: there is no chance that the BT device could be needed for DDB or
: single-user mode then I guess that your driver is a good thing, though
: the 'vkbd' name is a bit misleading since it really only applies to BT.
: But if you're interested in working with Brooks on a more unified
: abstraction, please don't let me stop you =-)
Having looked at the code, it looks like one could also use it to
implment a newton keyboard interface as well. A newton keyboard is a
serially attached keyboard that has nothing to do with bluetooth, but
which some people use on their tiny laptops in X with a driver program
I wrote a while ago. This looks to be a fairly clean abstraction. It
isn't immediately clear if it could also be used for the many-to-one
mux that people have talked about implementing for some time now, but
it isn't clear that it couldn't be used for that also.
It isn't inherently bluetooth from what I could see...
Warner
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