Re: new device driver features
Jim Gettys <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver |
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| Organization | HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 17:25, Jon Smirl wrote:
> This is not as simple as it looks. There is only one standalone I2C driver for
> Linux, the Voodoo one. Maxtrox and Radeon both have their I2C drivers bundled
> into their framebuffer drivers. I2C support is a Linux 2.6 feature. Also,
> loading Matrox/Radeon FB drivers to get I2C support reintroduces the mess of
> having two device drivers trying to control a single piece of hardware.
Given 2.6.0 is about to be released, and we're just
starting, (and want the hotplug and /dev/input stuff in
2.6 anyway), taking this as a presumption for this work
seems perfectly reasonable at this date to me.
- Jim
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Jim Gettys <[email protected]>
HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory