Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 17:43:52 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reward for fixing keyboard support in FreeBSD, apply within Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031207174209.29768B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20031207203224.GE98718@cnd.mcgill.ca>
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On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Mathew Kanner wrote: > On Dec 07, Mathew Kanner wrote: > > The way I see it, FreeBSD needs serious hacking to have > > multiple concurrent keyboards support without serious hacking. > > ugh, you know what I mean. With mouse support, we have a layer of indirection with moused that combines input from various mouse devices into a single event stream via /dev/sysmouse. While I don't think we want a keyboard daemon at this point, we might well need to add a similar abstraction in the kernel so that different keyboard sources can be combined. Just "plugging in" a USB mouse and having it "just work" is extremely beneficial, and I agree we need to be able to support the same with keyboards. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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