Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753616Ab0DMXTy (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:19:54 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:58866 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753460Ab0DMXTx (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:19:53 -0400 X-Authenticated: #12255092 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+mbY8HIkimeU6HUeKjbGKOG9Lt7EF6mvwBPGcTbR GLcQQV9a7NvXHR From: Peter =?iso-8859-1?q?H=FCwe?= To: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org Subject: Re: Parallel port LCD driver undocumented Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:19:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.33.2; KDE/4.3.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Michal Suchanek , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Willy Tarreau , willy@meta-x.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004140119.53687.PeterHuewe@gmx.de> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.64000000000000001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1145 Lines: 36 Am Mittwoch 14 April 2010 01:13:40 schrieb Michal Suchanek: > Hello > > I was thinking about adding a LCD to my PC so I thought that the > panel.c driver which just went to 2.6.34 would be helpful. > > The problem is there is no documentation. I can get quite detailed > documentation for at least some LCDs that are sold around here but > there is not enough documentation for the driver to determine if the > LCD in question would be compatible with the driver and with which > protocol. > > Detailed explanation of the parameters would be appreciated. For > example, there are three parallel protocols supported but there is no > description of the difference between them. > > Thanks Hi, I CC'ed willy - the original author of the driver - maybe he can help out. Meanwhile - did you have a look at LCDproc? http://lcdproc.org/ Userspace "drivers" for a lot of lcds and keypads. Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/