From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261566AbVFTVKh (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:10:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261488AbVFTVHT (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:07:19 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([81.30.235.3]:47752 "EHLO suse.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261373AbVFTUxj (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:53:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:53:48 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Alejandro Bonilla Cc: "'Yani Ioannou'" , linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ltp] Re: IBM HDAPS Someone interested? Message-ID: <20050620205348.GA9556@ucw.cz> References: <2538186705062013113dce139@mail.gmail.com> <006f01c575d6$41b9e480$600cc60a@amer.sykes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <006f01c575d6$41b9e480$600cc60a@amer.sykes.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:25:52PM -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > Yani, > > What company has ever released a Linux driver, just for the heck > of it, or simply because they wanted it out? Hell no. > > (maybe a couple odd ones) > > We have to be persistent and ask them to release something, we paid a > lot of money, and I have been missinformed to the fact that IBM loved > Linux and wanted to "support it". Looks like a big lie to me. They > don't even need to release a driver, just information. It is not even > something that they only have. Now we all know that Analog Devices > makes the hardware. Not them. Motorola makes similar sensors (MMA1220D, etc). The fact that the sensor is from AD doesn't mean anything, unfortunately, it's a generic sensor used in videocameras (picture stabilization), digital cameras (picture orientation detection), joysticks (logitech wingman gamepad), and many other devices. It's IBM (Lenovo) who interfaced it to some kind of a A/D and a processor inside the machine that detects the free fall condition and informs the BIOS/OS about it. > So much for anything. I will keep asking for this information. > > If people would send emails to IBM like I have, instead of complaining and > doing pilitical arguments, we probably would have an answer already. I believe at this moment the best approach is to track where the connections on the mainboard go from the accelerometer. ;) -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR