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From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	lm-sensors <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] adt7473: New driver for Analog Devices
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:52:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080219105210.2b8b0960@hyperion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080218213234.GC5784@tree.beaverton.ibm.com>

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:32:34 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Ok.  I wonder if the nouveau people have any intention to
> reverse-engineer the i2c controller?

There's probably not much to reverse-engineer, the nvidiafb driver has
been supporting the I2C controllers (using software-driven bit-banging)
for a long time now. Maybe the hardware can do better but it's probably
not a big deal as I2C access on a graphics adapter isn't performance
critical.

-- 
Jean Delvare

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From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	lm-sensors <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] adt7473: New driver for Analog Devices  ADT7473 sensor chip
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:52:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080219105210.2b8b0960@hyperion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080218213234.GC5784@tree.beaverton.ibm.com>

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:32:34 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Ok.  I wonder if the nouveau people have any intention to
> reverse-engineer the i2c controller?

There's probably not much to reverse-engineer, the nvidiafb driver has
been supporting the I2C controllers (using software-driven bit-banging)
for a long time now. Maybe the hardware can do better but it's probably
not a big deal as I2C access on a graphics adapter isn't performance
critical.

-- 
Jean Delvare

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-19  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-19  3:41 [lm-sensors] [PATCH] adt7473: New driver for Analog Devices ADT7473 Darrick J. Wong
2007-12-19  3:41 ` [PATCH] adt7473: New driver for Analog Devices ADT7473 sensor chip Darrick J. Wong
2007-12-19 14:47 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] adt7473: New driver for Analog Devices Jean Delvare
2007-12-19 23:14   ` Darrick J. Wong
2007-12-19 23:14     ` [PATCH] adt7473: New driver for Analog Devices ADT7473 sensor chip Darrick J. Wong
2008-02-17 20:02     ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] adt7473: New driver for Analog Mark M. Hoffman
2008-02-17 20:02       ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] adt7473: New driver for Analog Devices ADT7473 sensor chip Mark M. Hoffman
2008-02-18 21:32       ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] adt7473: New driver for Analog Darrick J. Wong
2008-02-18 21:32         ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] adt7473: New driver for Analog Devices ADT7473 sensor chip Darrick J. Wong
2008-02-19  9:52         ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2008-02-19  9:52           ` Jean Delvare
2008-02-18 21:33       ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH v2] adt7473: New driver for Analog Devices Darrick J. Wong
2008-02-18 21:33         ` [PATCH v2] adt7473: New driver for Analog Devices ADT7473 sensor chip Darrick J. Wong
2008-02-19  3:06         ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH v2] adt7473: New driver for Analog Mark M. Hoffman
2008-02-19  3:06           ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH v2] adt7473: New driver for Analog Devices ADT7473 sensor chip Mark M. Hoffman
2008-02-19  9:57         ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH v2] adt7473: New driver for Analog Devices Jean Delvare
2008-02-19  9:53       ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] " Jean Delvare
2008-02-19  9:53         ` [PATCH] adt7473: New driver for Analog Devices ADT7473 sensor chip Jean Delvare

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