On 06/01/2010 10:44 PM, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > Chase Douglas wrote: > [...] > >> One side note: After some more code digging, I realized that there are >> some drivers that reside directly inside of X. Most of these drivers >> talk directly to the hardware over the standard serial port, so they >> bypass the kernel and EVDEV layer altogether. As far as I know, none of >> them support multitouch; however, the serial port (as opposed to >> bluetooth or usb) wacom driver is in X, and new wacom serial devices are >> multitouch. If we want to enable them, we may have to reinvent the wheel >> inside the kernel to export them through EVDEV. I *think* this would be >> a good thing overall, and no one upstream said the contrary when I asked >> whether the way forward for multitouch was through the kernel and evdev. >> > Ping Cheng of wacom have been very active during the patchwork for the MT slot > extension, and it is very likely that they have something cooking for the MT > protocol. If you want, I could try and see if they would be interested in > accelerating the development, targeting Maverick. > Right, it would really, really help, not to have drivers outside of the kernel. I heard about those plans to get the wacom driver back behind an evdev(+) interface, but would love to get some details about how far that is.
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