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On 13/12/2018 21:50, Anders Rundgren wrote:
> On 2018-12-13 21:44, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>
>> ping ... ?
>>
>> On 05/12/2018 08:38, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the discussion reference is on github [1].
>>>
>>> I acquired a Lenovo x280 with a NFC chip. It is unclear what chip is it
>>> really, it is called NXP NPC300 which could be a PN7xxx chip range.
>>>
>>> A hacked version of an old deprecated out-of-tree module made the PN5xxx
>>> to work with my laptop but I suspect it brought some subtle instability
>>> on my system.
>>>
>>> Now it would be nice to have this correctly supported upstream.
> 
> Since all other PC vendors have ceased supporting NFC (Intel made it
> useless), why bother?

Well at least, I would like to have my laptop working correctly by
supporting the NFC chip. I think it is not a big deal to have the driver
supporting it.

For my information, why Intel made it useless ?

>>>
>>> I dumped the ACPI DSDT table and got the id NXP1001. This one is not
>>> listed in the match table of the nxp-nci driver.
>>>
>>>   - is the driver missing for the so called NXP NPC300 ?
>>>   - should the NXP1001 matching string to be added to nxp-nci?
>>>   - is my firmware sending me garbage ?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any input
>>>
>>>    -- Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> 


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