[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

[Per Hedeland]

On 2020-02-21 18:09, Ihor Antonov wrote:
> On 2020-02-21 09:51, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 8:40 AM Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:08:23 +0100
>>> Tomasz CEDRO <tomek at cedro.info> wrote:
>>>> This is clearly something that is very missing in the Handbook / WIKI
>>>> / synaptics manpages!
>>>         Perfect opportunity to submit a documentation patch.
>>
>> Indeed! :-) https://github.com/wulf7/iichid/issues/18
>>
>> This IICHID is a total fresh thing (and still experimental)! It had
>> initial release just 9 days ago and I did not head about this project
>> before. So nice to talk with smart people, thank you! :-)
>>
>
> iichid looks very similar in purpose to libinput [1]. What are
> similarities/differences? I wonoder what is the motivation for the
> project?

Well, my limited understanding (I haven't looked at the code for
either iichid or libinput) is that this module gives libinput
something to use for a certain class of hardware - it's not an
*alternative*. How could libinput use hardware that isn't supported by
the OS kernel? If you read my writeup earlier in the thread, I needed
both this driver and x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput to get my
touchpad to work.

--Per