2026-09-12 –, D.0.03
This talk will present the current state of the input device "stack" on OpenBSD, and discuss some ideas for upcoming changes in order to get the console, X.Org and Wayland applications the best possible support.
There are challenges with the different event encoding models, hot-plugging devices and handling their suspend and resume life cycles.
Matthieu has been a long time contributor to XFree86 on NetBSD then OpenBSD and X.Org. He has been maintaining X.Org on OpenBSD, in the Xenocara for many years. During the work days, he's working as a research engineer at CNRS in Toulouse, France where he runs a number of OpenBSD systems hosting security critical services along with robots mosltly under Linux.