Macbook touchpad driver

[Danilo E. Gondolfo]

On 01/26/14 06:19, Rohit Grover wrote:
> On 01/26/2014 07:36 AM, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> Can you list which models would work best for you?
>>
> I developed the atp driver using a Macbook4,1; which is fairly outdated.
>
> A bit of reading shows that the touchpads on modern Macbooks use
> BCM5974, which "reports both mouse and keyboard events via different
> interfaces of the same usb device."
> [https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/input/bcm5974.txt]. This is
> different from the original atp hardware, and there might be some
> additional work required here.
>
> I'd prefer to add support for something recent. Referring to the sources
> of the bcm5974 driver in linux, I find we should aim for something at
> least as recent as a MacbookPro8 (unibody, March 2011) or MacbookAir3,2
> (unibody, late 2010).
>
> thanks,
>

Hello,

One similar driver was committed on head [1].

Do you think that these two drivers can be merged?

Danilo.

[1] - http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=261260