Re: [request for testing] isl, cyapa on chromebooks

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Michael Gmelin <grembo_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> On 10 Oct 2016, at 20:27, Matthias Apitz <guru_at_unixarea.de> wrote:
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>>> El día Monday, October 10, 2016 a las 09:26:26AM -0600, Warner Losh escribió:
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>>> I see no reason not to start the table right away based on
>>> smbios.sys.product and other criteria. I don't think we need all the
>>> matches that Linux uses, but we can expand the table if we find it so.
>>> Why have a stop gap that's a table that we kludge together when the
>>> real table is of comparable difficulty and wouldn't need to be
>>> reworked.
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>> Please let us together concentrate on getting other i2c devices working,
>> like the Elan TouchPad, because I fear that newer Chromebooks are all
>> equipped with this and not with the Cyapa anymore.
>>
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> I see three tasks here:
>   - Andriy finishes his change, moving things from smbus to iicbus, adding some workaround to keep the user experience like it is
>   - Someone else implements the device table mechanism for auto detection
>   - Someone else ports HDI over I2C to allow implementing drivers for devices like the elan touchpad Matthias is referring to

I think I can do the device table mechanism if Andriy isn't up for it.

Warner