From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Thayer Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1]: input: add support for VirtualBox touchscreen emulation to the Lifebook driver Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:13:47 +0100 Message-ID: <1267571627.2441.24.camel@michael-laptop> References: <1266923615.3602.85.camel@michael-laptop> <20100223175852.GA11301@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1266958533.3602.128.camel@michael-laptop> <20100224100206.GA5598@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1267011989.2831.30.camel@michael-laptop> <20100225101705.GF10823@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1267562688.2441.7.camel@michael-laptop> <20100302212812.GA13499@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1267567219.2441.12.camel@michael-laptop> <20100302223947.GC13499@core.coreip.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from gmp-eb-inf-2.sun.com ([192.18.6.24]:57112 "EHLO gmp-eb-inf-2.sun.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752074Ab0CBXOI (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2010 18:14:08 -0500 In-reply-to: <20100302223947.GC13499@core.coreip.homeip.net> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Le mardi 02 mars 2010 =C3=A0 14:39 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov a =C3=A9crit = : > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:00:19PM +0100, Michael Thayer wrote: > > Le mardi 02 mars 2010 =C3=A0 13:28 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov a =C3=A9c= rit : > > > It is your call but I would much rather if you worked on fixeng e= vdev to > > > work with your virtual device rather than having to install a new= X > > > driver and going through the hoops trying to detect which one sho= uld be > > > used on a particular box. At least on Linux... > > That wouldn't really help us much here, as we are talking about dis= tributions > > shipping X.Org Server 1.4 and earlier, and those distributions are = no longer > > going to get that sort of update (in those cases in which they are = still > > getting updates at all). Legacy support if you like. > You need to distribute something... Or do these older distros already > include your guest drivers? We provide the drivers for those distributions (as well as a couple of = other things like tools for clipboard integration with the host, or seamless = desktop integration) as part of the VirtualBox package (and yes, we do jump thr= ough hoops to install them :) ). A couple of distributions do actually inst= all them by default (openSUSE, Pardus), but that is a bit of a mixed blessing fo= r us, as the versions installed are usually not the most recent, and it is hard = for us to update them. Regards, Michael --=20 Sun Microsystems GmbH Michael Thayer Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineer 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:michael.thayer@sun.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html