ADB support? [UPDATE]

[Ben Kaduk]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>
>> Andreas Jönsson wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm wondering how the ADB keyboard support is coming along?
>>> The last thing I've seen on this list is from July.
>>
>> I've been stymied by a lack of hardware. It works great on my PowerMac G3,
>> but that has a different controller chip (CUDA) than the one everybody wants
>> support for (PMU, found in laptops). My current work is here:
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/adb.diff
>>
>> It has a PMU driver, which may just work. Of course, it more likely
>> won't... Motivated people are welcome to hack it, and I'd appreciate any
>> reports. To add this support, apply the patch to sys on a recent -CURRENT,
>> add the following to your kernel config, and recompile:
>>
>> device cuda
>> device pmu
>> device adb
>
> It appears my ability to fix bugs without hardware is better than I thought.
> I managed to borrow a G4 iBook today, and the internal keyboard works
> perfectly with the above patch applied. I'd appreciate some more testing,
> and will clean it up a little before committing.
>
> On another note, it appears that loader is broken on this machine. I had to
> roll back to one from the end of 2007 to get it to boot -- it stalled right
> before loading loader.conf. Maybe it has to do with how it started opening
> the NIC several times?
> -Nathan


I have a late-model iBook G4 that I'll test, once I get my (new) T400 thinkpad
in a useable state.

Thanks for putting all this work in!

-Ben Kaduk