[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH] rpi-base.inc: Add xf86-input-evdev to XSERVER

[Gary Thomas]

On 2017-02-16 08:37, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
> On 16 February 2017 at 04:14, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com <mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 2017-02-16 02:45, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
>
>         On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 12:25:48AM +0900, Yusuke Mitsuki wrote:
>
>             In order to fix problem that mouse does not work.
>
>             This is removed c40558173ffd96c499d101155f6c4c2be85d9f0f.
>             However mouse does not worked from this.
>             ---
>              conf/machine/include/rpi-base.inc | 1 +
>              1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
>             diff --git a/conf/machine/include/rpi-base.inc b/conf/machine/include/rpi-base.inc
>             index e069e70..051c717 100644
>             --- a/conf/machine/include/rpi-base.inc
>             +++ b/conf/machine/include/rpi-base.inc
>             @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ XSERVER = " \
>                  xserver-xorg \
>                  ${@bb.utils.contains("MACHINE_FEATURES", "vc4graphics", "xserver-xorg-extension-glx", "", d)} \
>                  ${@bb.utils.contains("MACHINE_FEATURES", "vc4graphics", "xf86-video-modesetting", "xf86-video-fbdev", d)} \
>             +    xf86-input-evdev \
>                  "
>
>              KERNEL_DEVICETREE ?= " \
>             --
>             2.7.4
>
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>         CC-ing schnitzeltony at googlemail.com <mailto:schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> as he might have an opinion about
>         this. I personally don't really hold on any of the options.
>
>
>     I think it's the right thing to do, in fact, I was preparing a
>     similar patch myself.  The change that removed this argued that
>     it was not the responsibility of the BSP layer, but if you look
>     around at other BSP layers, almost all of them do include this
>     driver as part of their X server setup.  It also lets X work
>     again on the RaspberryPi "out of the box" with the simplest
>     configuration - HDMI display + USB keyboard & mouse.
>
>     +1
>
>
> Out of interest: Why is xf86-input-libinput not appropriate for these setups? I honestly did not know of a use case
> where -evdev would work but -libinput would not...

I'm not sure (and I don't have a setup right now to test).  I've always
used -evdev as that was the recommended driver for many years now.

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