Re: [iPAQ] Ann: kbdd, serial keyboard alternate "driver"

From: Jamey Hicks <jamey.hicks.a.t.hp.com>
Date: Fri Apr 30 2004 - 08:25:20 EDT

Nils Faerber wrote:

>Hi!
>For the last few weeks I experimented with serial keyboards. I found
>that the current solution using specialised kernel drivers is quite
>unsatisfactory.
>
>The kernel drivers are IMHO inconvenient to accomodate for changes and
>difficult to use. I also do not see any real need for kernel drivers
>since we already have a good serial driver; at least for most serial
>keyboards.
>So I tried a userspace only approach.
>
>
>
Good idea!

>My current result can be found here:
>
> http://www.handhelds.org/~nils/kbdd-0.01.tar.bz2
>
>This is far from complete and still needs a lot of work. But following
>an old open source tradition to release early, here we go ;)
>
>
>
Well done! CPU-independent keyboard drivers for iPAQs have been needed
for a while now, and to move it to user space to make it easier to get
people to work on it is an extra bonus. Thanks for doing this.

Jamey
Received on Fri Apr 30 12:27:12 2004

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