What is evdev and autoloading?

[Oleksandr Tymoshenko]

Michael Gmelin (grembo at freebsd.org) wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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.

I want to second this. evdev + libinput was the only option out of
several that provided smooth multitouch experience for Xorg on my 2018
laptop I really appreciate all the efforts to make it work both on
kernel and ports side.

-- 
gonzo