From: ken.dickey@whidbey.com
Subject: Porting framebuffer+libevdev (Linux) to framebuffer+libinput (OpenBSD)
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:33:51 -0700

Greetings,

I am looking at getting a framebuffer back end for the OpenSmalltalk 
IDEs up on OpenBSD.

So my question is "Is this a sensible thing to attempt?".

I am an old (read slow) guy who writes a small amount of C code about 
once a decade and don't have a lot of resources to apply, but I do have 
some persistence and can learn, sometimes.

My ol' brain does not do grand plan projects anymore, but is OK with 
small projects + tinkering to success.

I updated a port of OpenSmalltalkVM's fbdev back end to Linux a while 
back [tested on {Alpine,Armbian} Linux].

  
https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/tree/Cog/platforms/unix/vm-display-fbdev


So my question is really to the libinput/framebuffer folks.

Is this something I should get into, or is it too large for my ol' 
shrinking brain?

Thanks in advance for any input.

-KenD
PS: Rasperry Pi/Raspian is my main desktop environment.