From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 16 21:57:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6253D16A4CE; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:57:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [168.103.84.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D004343D46; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:57:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by harmony.village.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iAGLtEPp041127; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:55:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:55:34 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20041116.145534.79867788.imp@bsdimp.com> To: scottl@FreeBSD.org From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <419A4F8F.8000509@freebsd.org> References: <419A492A.7020602@freebsd.org> <419A4F8F.8000509@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@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 X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:57:01 -0000 In message: <419A4F8F.8000509@freebsd.org> Scott Long 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