Apple Touchpad driver for Macbook

[Rui Paulo]

On 20 Sep 2009, at 12:05, Rohit Grover wrote:

> Hello Everybody,
>
> I have developed a driver for the Touchpad device on Apple Macbooks.
> Mine is a Macbook 3,1, and I run FreeBSD7.2 on it--so testing has so
> far been limited to this configuration. In its present state, the
> driver supports multi-tap, edge detection, and movement smoothening.
>
> You may get the driver from git://github.com/rgrover/freebsd-atp.git.
> Instructions for installing and using the driver may be obtained from:
> http://wiki.github.com/rgrover/freebsd-atp
>
> I have put in significant work in the area of movement smoothening,
> and in setting up an infrastructure for tracking individual finger
> strokes (which may later be evolved into gesture detection). There may
> be potential for this code to form the basis for a generic touchpad
> driver.
>
> I have been using this driver for a few weeks now. It is stable.
> Please help me test this driver for a wider range of Apple hardware.
> I will also be porting this code to 8-CURRENT once I get that to boot
> on my MacBook.
>
> I would like to see this driver committed to FreeBSD. I request the
> committers to please guide me in this process.

Great work. I haven't seen the code but this looks promising. If you  
can port it to FreeBSD 8's USB stack, we can start thinking about  
committing it.

Thanks,
--
Rui Paulo