What is evdev and autoloading?

[Michael Gmelin]

> On 18. Feb 2019, at 23:54, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 08:50:27AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> I think one serious problem here is the summary dismissal of things
>> simply on the "5 year old" basis.
> 
> IIUC the graphics changes are being forced upon FreeBSD by external
> projects (mainly Linux-based) that are making huge architectural changes
> that rely more and more on features from newer hardware.
> 
> If our upstreams aren't willing to do the work to keep from violating
> POLA on older hardware, IMHO it's an awful lot to ask of our already
> thinly stretched graphics volunteers to provide it in their stead.
> 
> w/rt graphics, we are at far more danger of being left further and
> further behind on modern hardware than we are at risk of losing users
> on older hardware here.
> 
> Again all IMHO.
> 
> disclaimer: I don't use any fancy graphics stuff, so (as the old folks
> say around here)

I’m very happy (and grateful) that 2018 was the first year in over a decade I was able to run FreeBSD on a state of the art laptop with all the features that are essential to me working - which included decent touchpad support provided through evdev+libinput.

-m