Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] input: add DFROBOT touchscreen controller

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On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 3:36 PM Tim Harvey <tharvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The DFROBOT DFR0678 [1] and DFR0550 [2] touchscreen displays are meant
> to be compatible with the official RaspberryPi 7in display. However
> instead of directly conntecting the FT5x06 touch controller to the I2C
> bus going to the host processor they route it through an MCU and emulate
> a virtual FT5x06 controller but don't do a very good job at it. The
> method the RaspberryPi firmware used to read the touch data is supported
> (which consists of reading R2 to get the number of touch points, then
> reading 4 bytes of data for each point in discrete I2C transactions. If
> you try to use the FT5x06 driver which reads all registers starting at
> R0 at once you will get invalid point data.
>
> This controller lacks an interrupt and does not send UP events so
> polling mode is used and event ID tracking is used to emulate UP events.
>
> This series adds dt bindings and a standalone driver for this touch
> controller as opposed to an RFC series I sent out that attempts to add
> support to the existing edt-ft5x06 driver.
>
> Tim
> [1] - https://www.dfrobot.com/product-2193.html
> [2] - https://www.dfrobot.com/product-1784.html
>
> Tim Harvey (3):
>   dt-bindings: Add vendor prefix for DFRobot
>   dt-bindings: touchscreen: Add dfr0550 bindings
>   input: touchscreen: add dfr0550 support
>
>  .../bindings/input/touchscreen/dfr0550.yaml   |  53 +++++
>  .../devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml  |   2 +
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   5 +
>  drivers/input/touchscreen/Kconfig             |  12 +
>  drivers/input/touchscreen/Makefile            |   1 +
>  drivers/input/touchscreen/dfr0550.c           | 208 ++++++++++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 281 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/touchscreen/dfr0550.yaml
>  create mode 100644 drivers/input/touchscreen/dfr0550.c
>

Any feedback on this?

The other approach I posted an RFC series for was to add support to
the existing edt-ft5x06 driver [1].

Best regards,

Tim
[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-input/list/?series=596977



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