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[Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chase Douglas wrote:
[...]
> One side note: After some more code digging, I realized that there are
> some drivers that reside directly inside of X. Most of these drivers
> talk directly to the hardware over the standard serial port, so they
> bypass the kernel and EVDEV layer altogether. As far as I know, none of
> them support multitouch; however, the serial port (as opposed to
> bluetooth or usb) wacom driver is in X, and new wacom serial devices are
> multitouch. If we want to enable them, we may have to reinvent the wheel
> inside the kernel to export them through EVDEV. I *think* this would be
> a good thing overall, and no one upstream said the contrary when I asked
> whether the way forward for multitouch was through the kernel and evdev.

Ping Cheng of wacom have been very active during the patchwork for the MT slot
extension, and it is very likely that they have something cooking for the MT
protocol. If you want, I could try and see if they would be interested in
accelerating the development, targeting Maverick.

Henrik