On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 09:24 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: > > Sorry, I can't parse what you wrote. You don't know where I heard that > > Xorg is > > Linux-only? Is that what you said? My understanding *had been* that Xorg > > was > > trying to be compatible with as many Unixes as possible, and specifically > > avoid > > being Linux only, which is why seeing the depth of Linuxcode that is in your > > flagship input driver, evdev, surprised me so. I uderstood, from Peter's > > mail, > > that I'm wrong there, and the use of Linux-only ocde in that flagship > > driver was > > deliberate. Simply really surprised me, that's all. > > Xorg is not Linux-only, but evdev is. On Solaris & BSD, Xorg uses the > xf86-input-keyboard & xf86-input-mouse drivers instead.
Both Solaris and BSD have very similar event APIs, afaik, and could easily have drivers for same. But they don't. Patches gratefully etc. - ajax
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