Re: new powerbook touchpad
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 00:48 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 08:42 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > > A very basic and "touchy" driver is done. The coordinates of the code
> > > are on my PowerBook page:
> > > http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/PowerBook/touchpad/driver
> >
> > I think it should ultimately be entirely a kernel driver though ...
>
> Yes, I agree. But this is imho easier for experimentation and
> development, I actually developed the first prototype in python.
>
> I'm still hoping someone with a bit of a clue how this might work would
> pick it up to get palm detection etc. working, and thought the entry
> barrier would be smaller having just a userspace program to modify and
> not having to worry about the kernel too much.
>
> Ultimately of course, once it works fine, it would probably be easy to
> roll into a single kernel module.
I'd like to take some time and look at it - it looks very promising!
Cheers,
Ben
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