Re: new device driver features

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 01:24, Jim Gettys wrote:
> 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.

I would say that getting a new driver model usable with two separate
display systems, a freedesktop.org based X server, and eg. XDirectFB
would be much more important than support for legacy systems such as
linux kernel version 2.2.* and soon 2.4.*. 

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Torgeir Veimo <[email protected]>