Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:38:15 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_J=F6nsson?= <tn06aj0@student.lth.se> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ADB support? [UPDATE] Message-ID: <48E56977.9050407@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <48E0DDE6.5030909@freebsd.org> References: <46171.83.233.155.226.1222694615.squirrel@webmail.student.lth.se> <48E0DDE6.5030909@freebsd.org>
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Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > Andreas Jönsson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm wondering how the ADB keyboard support is coming along? >> The last thing I've seen on this list is from July. > > I've been stymied by a lack of hardware. It works great on my PowerMac > G3, but that has a different controller chip (CUDA) than the one > everybody wants support for (PMU, found in laptops). My current work is > here: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/adb.diff > > It has a PMU driver, which may just work. Of course, it more likely > won't... Motivated people are welcome to hack it, and I'd appreciate any > reports. To add this support, apply the patch to sys on a recent > -CURRENT, add the following to your kernel config, and recompile: > > device cuda > device pmu > device adb It appears my ability to fix bugs without hardware is better than I thought. I managed to borrow a G4 iBook today, and the internal keyboard works perfectly with the above patch applied. I'd appreciate some more testing, and will clean it up a little before committing. On another note, it appears that loader is broken on this machine. I had to roll back to one from the end of 2007 to get it to boot -- it stalled right before loading loader.conf. Maybe it has to do with how it started opening the NIC several times? -Nathan
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