Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:54:23 -0400 From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> To: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ADB support? [UPDATE] Message-ID: <47d0403c0810031154m4fb03e41m651627b6f19fb22d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48E56977.9050407@freebsd.org> References: <46171.83.233.155.226.1222694615.squirrel@webmail.student.lth.se> <48E0DDE6.5030909@freebsd.org> <48E56977.9050407@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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 I have a late-model iBook G4 that I'll test, once I get my (new) T400 thinkpad in a useable state. Thanks for putting all this work in! -Ben Kadukhome | help
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