Re: Newbie (to ppc), but glad to be here.
On 6 Aug 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 19:08, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > I suspect we should probably just expose the PMU i2c bus to userland
> > > some way and have a userland tool to deal with that, I'm not too fan
> > > of doing a kernel driver... I also have not much time.
> >
> > We _already_ expose it to userland, via the generic PMU
> > interface. And *please* don't add an easier-to-use userland
> > interface to the PMU IIC bus; it's too easy to lock it up /
> > cause other bad interactions, so if userland needs any more,
> > a proper driver should be written. We have enough rope
> > already :-)
> >
> > The same applies to the KL and the UNI-N IIC busses.
>
> Both of them are available to userland via normal i2c layer in
> linux, but I'd rather avoid having people play with "generic"
> drivers like lm_sensors in there indeed...
In this case, exactly what userland tool is missing to access that and allow us
to run adjust the CRT? We already have the i2c bus interface, what can play it?
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Martin-Éric Racine
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