Re: kernel I2C and video cards? (was ... I2O ...)

Simon Vogl (simon@tk.uni-linz.ac.at)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:27:56 +0200 (CEST)

>
> "Petr Vandrovec Ing. VTEI" wrote:
> > Also, DDC[123] protocol is not available for free from VESA and I do not
>
> Yeah. It isn't even available to the XFree86 project privately AFAIK.
> :( There is some generic DDC code in XFree86 3.x.
>
>
> > And because of feature freeze is going to happen soon, I have question
> > (I did not ask on simmons i2c forum yet) - should I base it on Simmons
> > I2C or on current kernel I2C implementation (kernel I2C does not
> > provide start-send_x_bytes-start-recv_y_bytes-stop currently :-( And
> > some monitors do not work with another sequence (x=2, y=128)?
>
> I like Simmons I2C better but I guess you have to wait if his I2C
> doesn't make it into the 2.3.x kernel.
>
> Jeff
>
Well, there are still some things left to do (like ensuring everything is SMP-
safe) before we can start committing patches.
If you want to help speed things up, please do join the i2c mailing list & test
the code from the4 cvs archives -- the more testers there are the better...

Have fun,
Simon
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