From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Belmonte Subject: Re: RE: preparing toshiba_acpi driver release Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:00:14 -0500 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <401571CE.1020405@neggie.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Brown, Len" Cc: Ducrot Bruno , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Brown, Len wrote: > Indeed, the next piece of the puzzle it to figure out how to properly > do hot-keys correctly. Surely Windows doesn't have a driver for each > OEM's buttons... I believe that presumption is not correct. At least for Toshiba, all machines are shipped with a hotkey daemon that polls the keys through Toshiba's proprietary HCI (with the HCI accessed via special CPU registers or ACPI). -John -- http:// if ile.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn