Adding multi-touch as a module?

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About Multi - touch

You can do multitouch driver as a module. This
kernel module to be unloaded from memory the old driver and load a new one. one person did it for the ebook.

Here's how to compile and add module:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...6&postcount=10
'andrej' has also added a sample from G1

any developer willing to help?

We need someone with knowledge in C, or give me touchscreen module sources for both X10 multitouch module and X8, and 2-3 weeks of time to try to make this work... I'd figure out differences between two modules and put mulitouch part to x8's module... I've had success in similar stuff already so why don't give it a try? We have nothing to lose... (except time, of course )

Will this work?

excellent! I'm in support for this

Originally Posted by blagus

We need someone with knowledge in C, or give me touchscreen module sources for both X10 multitouch module and X8, and 2-3 weeks of time to try to make this work... I'd figure out differences between two modules and put mulitouch part to x8's module... I've had success in similar stuff already so why don't give it a try? We have nothing to lose... (except time, of course )

Cool. I'm no programmer but I'll try and get a developer to share the X10 module, and then you can perhaps give it a shot If a developer jumps onboard, it'll be brilliant ofc.

@Others
From what I've heard, this has been done and ought to work. Since you dont need to push a new kernel altogether, that step is bypassed.

If it worked, would it be implemented on official 2.1 only, or could it be ported to non-official roms too?

Originally Posted by Graveir

If it worked, would it be implemented on official 2.1 only, or could it be ported to non-official roms too?

Its a bit premature to comment on that. First we need to get developers onboard. But once the kernel module is modded, it should work across all ROMs.

Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadable_kernel_module

See the section for binary compability.

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Originally Posted by oisteink

Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadable_kernel_module

See the section for binary compability.

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it says
"In an attempt to combat those problems ,
symbol versioning data is placed within the
. m o d i n f o section of loadable ELF
modules . This versioning information can
be compared with that of the running
kernel before loading a module ; if the
versions are incompatible , the module will
not be loaded."
Maybe the module can be customized, and the symbol versioning data added, so that the kernel doesn't reject it?
Just a thought. Somebody has managed to.do this for another device. I'll try and get in touch with him.

Check out this thread. Here is where the discussion about such a possibility started:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=976948