Am 2015-03-19 um 11:22 schrieb Bastien Nocera: > On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 19:28 +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote: >> Am 2015-03-18 um 19:05 schrieb Bastien Nocera: >>> On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 19:02 +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote: >>>> Am 2015-03-18 um 17:59 schrieb Bastien Nocera: >>>>> On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 17:42 +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote: >>>>>> >>>>> <snip> >>>>>> It could have gone to drivers/iio/accel if it would use an >>>>>> iio interface, which would make more sense, you are right, >>>>>> but I >>>>>> simply don't have the time to merge it in to iio. >>>>>> >>>>>> It doesn't use an input interface either but I don't see a >>>>>> good place for an accelerometer that uses sysfs only. >>>>>> >>>>>> It works well, is a relatively recent chip and a clean >>>>>> dirver. But this is all I can provide. >>>>> >>>>> As a person who works on the user-space interaction of those >>>>> with desktops [1]: Urgh. >>>>> >>>>> I already have 3 (probably 4) types of accelerometers to >>>>> contend with, I'm not fond of adding yet another type. >>>>> >>>>> Is there any way to get this hardware working outside the SoCs >>>>> it's designed for (say, a device with I2C like a Raspberry >>>>> Pi), so that a kind soul could handle getting this using the >>>>> right interfaces? >>>>> >>>> >>>> It works on basically any SoC and is in no way limited in this >>>> regard. Sure, userspace has to expicitely support it and I hear >>>> you. Using the iio interface would make more sense. I can only >>>> say I'd love to have the time to move this driver over. I'm >>>> very sorry. >>> >>> How can we get the hardware for somebody to use on their own >>> laptops/embedded boards to implement this driver? >>> >> >> It's connected over I2C. If the included documentation is not clear >> please tell me what exacly. Thanks! > > > I'll ask the question a different way: can you please give the address > of a shop where that hardware is available? > there is http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=RDMMA865x&lang_cd= and http://linux-sunxi.org/Inet_K970 for example. I think I saw Android devices with it too, and I would guess it would be used more often if it were in linux. Please refer to v4 of the patch for different questions. thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
