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| 1 | BCM5974 Driver (bcm5974) | ||
| 2 | ------------------------ | ||
| 3 | Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | The USB initialization and package decoding was made by Scott Shawcroft as | ||
| 6 | part of the touchd user-space driver project: | ||
| 7 | Copyright (C) 2008 Scott Shawcroft (scott.shawcroft@gmail.com) | ||
| 8 | |||
| 9 | The BCM5974 driver is based on the appletouch driver: | ||
| 10 | Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman (greg@kroah.com) | ||
| 11 | Copyright (C) 2005 Johannes Berg (johannes@sipsolutions.net) | ||
| 12 | Copyright (C) 2005 Stelian Pop (stelian@popies.net) | ||
| 13 | Copyright (C) 2005 Frank Arnold (frank@scirocco-5v-turbo.de) | ||
| 14 | Copyright (C) 2005 Peter Osterlund (petero2@telia.com) | ||
| 15 | Copyright (C) 2005 Michael Hanselmann (linux-kernel@hansmi.ch) | ||
| 16 | Copyright (C) 2006 Nicolas Boichat (nicolas@boichat.ch) | ||
| 17 | |||
| 18 | This driver adds support for the multi-touch trackpad on the new Apple | ||
| 19 | Macbook Air and Macbook Pro laptops. It replaces the appletouch driver on | ||
| 20 | those computers, and integrates well with the synaptics driver of the Xorg | ||
| 21 | system. | ||
| 22 | |||
| 23 | Known to work on Macbook Air, Macbook Pro Penryn and the new unibody | ||
| 24 | Macbook 5 and Macbook Pro 5. | ||
| 25 | |||
| 26 | Usage | ||
| 27 | ----- | ||
| 28 | |||
| 29 | The driver loads automatically for the supported usb device ids, and | ||
| 30 | becomes available both as an event device (/dev/input/event*) and as a | ||
| 31 | mouse via the mousedev driver (/dev/input/mice). | ||
| 32 | |||
| 33 | USB Race | ||
| 34 | -------- | ||
| 35 | |||
| 36 | The Apple multi-touch trackpads report both mouse and keyboard events via | ||
| 37 | different interfaces of the same usb device. This creates a race condition | ||
| 38 | with the HID driver, which, if not told otherwise, will find the standard | ||
| 39 | HID mouse and keyboard, and claim the whole device. To remedy, the usb | ||
| 40 | product id must be listed in the mouse_ignore list of the hid driver. | ||
| 41 | |||
| 42 | Debug output | ||
| 43 | ------------ | ||
| 44 | |||
| 45 | To ease the development for new hardware version, verbose packet output can | ||
| 46 | be switched on with the debug kernel module parameter. The range [1-9] | ||
| 47 | yields different levels of verbosity. Example (as root): | ||
| 48 | |||
| 49 | echo -n 9 > /sys/module/bcm5974/parameters/debug | ||
| 50 | |||
| 51 | tail -f /var/log/debug | ||
| 52 | |||
| 53 | echo -n 0 > /sys/module/bcm5974/parameters/debug | ||
| 54 | |||
| 55 | Trivia | ||
| 56 | ------ | ||
| 57 | |||
| 58 | The driver was developed at the ubuntu forums in June 2008 [1], and now has | ||
| 59 | a more permanent home at bitmath.org [2]. | ||
| 60 | |||
| 61 | Links | ||
| 62 | ----- | ||
| 63 | |||
| 64 | [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=840040 | ||
| 65 | [2] http://http://bitmath.org/code/ | ||
