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- BCM5974 Driver (bcm5974)
- ------------------------
- Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
- The USB initialization and package decoding was made by Scott Shawcroft as
- part of the touchd user-space driver project:
- Copyright (C) 2008 Scott Shawcroft (scott.shawcroft@gmail.com)
- The BCM5974 driver is based on the appletouch driver:
- Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman (greg@kroah.com)
- Copyright (C) 2005 Johannes Berg (johannes@sipsolutions.net)
- Copyright (C) 2005 Stelian Pop (stelian@popies.net)
- Copyright (C) 2005 Frank Arnold (frank@scirocco-5v-turbo.de)
- Copyright (C) 2005 Peter Osterlund (petero2@telia.com)
- Copyright (C) 2005 Michael Hanselmann (linux-kernel@hansmi.ch)
- Copyright (C) 2006 Nicolas Boichat (nicolas@boichat.ch)
- This driver adds support for the multi-touch trackpad on the new Apple
- Macbook Air and Macbook Pro laptops. It replaces the appletouch driver on
- those computers, and integrates well with the synaptics driver of the Xorg
- system.
- Known to work on Macbook Air, Macbook Pro Penryn and the new unibody
- Macbook 5 and Macbook Pro 5.
- Usage
- -----
- The driver loads automatically for the supported usb device ids, and
- becomes available both as an event device (/dev/input/event*) and as a
- mouse via the mousedev driver (/dev/input/mice).
- USB Race
- --------
- The Apple multi-touch trackpads report both mouse and keyboard events via
- different interfaces of the same usb device. This creates a race condition
- with the HID driver, which, if not told otherwise, will find the standard
- HID mouse and keyboard, and claim the whole device. To remedy, the usb
- product id must be listed in the mouse_ignore list of the hid driver.
- Debug output
- ------------
- To ease the development for new hardware version, verbose packet output can
- be switched on with the debug kernel module parameter. The range [1-9]
- yields different levels of verbosity. Example (as root):
- echo -n 9 > /sys/module/bcm5974/parameters/debug
- tail -f /var/log/debug
- echo -n 0 > /sys/module/bcm5974/parameters/debug
- Trivia
- ------
- The driver was developed at the ubuntu forums in June 2008 [1], and now has
- a more permanent home at bitmath.org [2].
- Links
- -----
- [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=840040
- [2] http://bitmath.org/code/
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