Subject: Re: BusMouse code versus laptops
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/18/1998 11:00:00
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 13:58:24 -0400
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> 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.
...uh, so, "wsmouse" ... they're all going to be changed to wsmouse
events anyhow.
See psm and psm_intelli in sys/dev/pckbdc
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