svn commit: r49559 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Mon Oct 24 02:01:02 UTC 2016

Author: bjk
Date: Mon Oct 24 02:01:00 2016
New Revision: 49559
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49559

Log:
  Add evdev entry from gonzo

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml	Mon Oct 24 01:46:27 2016	(r49558)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml	Mon Oct 24 02:01:00 2016	(r49559)
@@ -1052,4 +1052,59 @@
       <task>general clean-up and bugfixes.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='kern'>
+    <title>evdev Support</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Vladimir</given>
+	  <common>Kondratiev</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>wulf at cicgroup.ru</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Oleksandr</given>
+	  <common>Tymoshenko</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>gonzo at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://github.com/wulf7/&os;">evdev WIP Repository</url>
+      <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SummerOfCode2014/evdev_Touchscreens">Original evdev Proposal</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p><tt>evdev</tt> is a portable, API-compatible implementation of
+	the Linux <tt>/dev/input/eventX</tt> interface.  It covers a wide
+	variaty of input devices like keyboards, mice, and touchscreens
+	(with multitouch support), and support for it is implemented in a
+	lot of existing userland components like Qt, <tt>libinput</tt>, and
+	<tt>tslib</tt>.</p>
+
+      <p><tt>evdev</tt> support was started by Jakub Klama as a Google SoC
+	2014 project, and later picked up and finished by Vladimir
+	Kondratiev.  General API and <tt>evdev</tt> support bits for
+	<tt>ukbd</tt> and <tt>ums</tt> were committed to HEAD.  Support was
+	also added for TI's AM33xx touchstreen controller (the popular
+	BeagleBone is based on the AM33xx) and the official touschreen for
+	the Raspberry Pi.  Multitouch support for the Raspberry Pi was
+	successfully demoed using the lastest Qt development branch.</p>
+  </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Documentation. In particular, manual pages are needed for the
+	KPI.</task>
+
+      <task>Support additional hardware.</task>
+
+      <task>Enable <tt>evdev</tt> support in existing ports, and add new
+	<tt>evdev</tt>-dependent ports.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
