Ugh, GPL, So we can't have this for OpenSolaris or any of the *BSD's then? What a shame/wast of IP..
2009/9/30 Peter Hutterer <[email protected]>: > Good news everyone! > > It is with great pleasure that I can announce a new driver in our happy > family: xf86-input-wacom. > > xf86-input-wacom is a fork of the linuxwacom driver and the credit goes to > Ping Cheng for forking it, cleaning out pre-server-1.6 cruft and adding the > initial device property support. > We've now removed the (more or less) unrelated kernel driver from the > repository and are in the middle of a property code cleanup. > > Right now, the driver sits in my people repository on: > git://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/xf86-input-wacom.git > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~whot/xf86-input-wacom/ > > The current 0.9.1 is stable but the driver is quite active in development, > the property-rework branch is currently the most active one. Our bugzilla > interface already has a Input/wacom field, so feel free to test the driver, > report bugs, and send us patches and/or beverage. > > In the near future, this driver will wander into a proper directory and join > the illustrous circle of mouse, keyboard, evdev and synaptics. This brings > all major input drivers under one roof, making it a lot easier to sync the > driver with future server API changes and - possibly - share some code > between the drivers. > Note that xf86-input-wacom is licenced under the GPL and thus will not be > part of the katamari release. > > For the time being, we will sync linuxwacom and xf86-input-wacom, as there > is a large number of users over at sourceforge. Future development will be > focusing mostly on xf86-input-wacom. > > So here's to Ping and getting the last of the big 4 input drivers under our > roof. > > Cheers, > Peter > _______________________________________________ > xorg-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel > -- -- Edward O'Callaghan http://www.auroraux.org/ eocallaghan at auroraux dot org _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
