Alan Coopersmith wrote: > max at bruningsystems.com wrote: > >> Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: >> >>> Sounds awesome, looking forward to using it :) >>> >>> I suggest contacting the Tamarack project [1] regarding HAL >>> and the X Window System community [2] regarding X.Org. >>> Albert Lee (Cc'd - Trisk) has also done some work porting >>> linuxwacom to Solaris. The spec files[3] are here: >>> http://pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk/SFExorg-input-wacom.spec?view=log >>> >>> >> I have taken a look at the spec file, and I guess I don't understand >> it. It looks >> like a specification for building the linux Xorg (xdrv) package for Solaris. >> How is this supposed to work without kernel support? Or am I missing >> something? >> > > Most Xorg drivers have no specific kernel counterpart but use generic > kernel drivers. Keyboard & mouse have specific drivers, but other > input drivers generally use the generic serial or USB drivers to > connect to the device and handle whatever protocol is needed in the user > space code. The x86 video drivers use /dev/xsvc to reach right through > the kernel to the PCI config space and device registers/memory. > Great. My new kernel driver (Streams module) went from 1500 lines of code down to 500 lines. In fact, maybe I don't need this at all. I could use user level code to send the appropriate info directly to the hid driver... > Of course, this isn't a good situation, and we know kernel drivers > are needed for supporting things like suspend-and-resume, but haven't > had the time, hardware, or information to write kernel drivers for > all of the devices we have Xorg drivers for. > > Yes, but for usb hid devices, suspend/resume should be handled by the HID driver, no?
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