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Date:      Sat, 05 Nov 2005 23:53:51 +1000
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        edward <kouye@wanadoo.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Update on FreeBSD 6.0 ppc status ?
Message-ID:  <436CB96F.5080400@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <436CB762.7000008@wanadoo.fr>
References:  <436C8D13.7090606@wanadoo.fr> <436CB591.9010500@freebsd.org> <436CB762.7000008@wanadoo.fr>

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> Thanks Peter. Just for my education, what is keeping FreeBSD from 
> supporting an internal keyboard and trackpad ?

  An oft-asked question :) Unfortunately the code required is an entire 
stack:

   syscons keyboard/mouse i/f
   ------------
   adb keyboard/mouse drivers
   ------------
   adb bus code
   ------------
   adb host bridge code
   ------------
   cuda/pmu driver
   ------------
   via6522 shift-register messaging

  .. and to top it off, the whole shebang should really be able to 
operate in polled mode from top to bottom if DDB is to be usable.

  I guess it really needs someone focused to get it done, and to date I 
just haven't had the time :(

later,

Peter.



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