Re: NetBSD on older Macbook Pro: Wi-Fi and trackpad

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 07:47:12AM +1030, Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 01:48:54PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > 
> > They do work on btmagic(4):
> > [    29.023479] btmagic0 at bthub0 remote-bdaddr e8:80:2e:e5:20:6f link-mode auth: 3 buttons, W and Z dirs
> > [    29.023479] wsmouse1 at btmagic0 mux 0
> > 
> 
> Wow - bluetooth for what is an internal device, interesting.

It's not internal, it's an "apple magic trackpad"

> 
> > > layer that takes raw trackpad data and synthesizes them?  Is this
> > 
> > At this point it's in the btmagic driver itself; but maybe it would be
> > possible to abstract this.
> > 
> 
> Maybe we should look at this, there are some gestures and emulations
> that are done in the synaptics driver that may be useful for btmagic and
> it doesn't make sense to replicate the code into another trackpad
> driver.  I think it would require a design of a layer that would sit
> between the underlying trackpad device and the wsmouse driver.  This
> intervening layer could take the underlying raw finger positions and
> perform things like button emulation, two finger scroll, scrolling
> regions and the like.

Sure.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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