Subject: Re: BusMouse code versus laptops
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/18/1998 13:58:24
Ken Hornstein writes:
> Looking through the XFree86 source code shows that they know about
> this protocol, and they do all of the right things.  I'm wondering if
> it makes sense to make the PMS driver and friends have the ability to
> send the _raw_ PS/2/Logitech/Microsoft protocol bytes instead of the
> BusMouse protocol, since (from where I'm sitting) the only other
> alternative is to add support for gazillion different pointer protocols
> to the pms driver.
> 
> Comments?

Maybe we should have a Busmouse PS/2 interface and a PS2 PS/2
interface, with two different minor device numbers.

Perry