Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759974Ab0GQOAM (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:00:12 -0400 Received: from promwad.com ([109.123.95.251]:39710 "EHLO promwad.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754971Ab0GQOAJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:00:09 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 5122 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:00:09 EDT Message-ID: <4C41A413.50205@promwad.com> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:37:39 +0300 From: Ivan Kuten Reply-To: ivan.kuten@promwad.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 SUSE/3.1.0 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Walleij CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Russell King , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, mattia.jona@gmail.com, "'Viktar Palstsiuk'" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] MISC: driver for the character LCD found in ARM refdesigns References: <1279365780-18462-1-git-send-email-triad@df.lth.se> In-Reply-To: <1279365780-18462-1-git-send-email-triad@df.lth.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1349 Lines: 54 Hello Linus, > diff --git a/drivers/misc/arm-charlcd.c b/drivers/misc/arm-charlcd.c > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..9e3879e > --- /dev/null > +++ b/drivers/misc/arm-charlcd.c > @@ -0,0 +1,396 @@ > +/* > + * Driver for the on-board character LCD found on some ARM reference boards > + * This is basically an Hitachi HD44780 LCD with a custom IP block to drive it > + * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD44780_Character_LCD > + * Currently it will just display the text "ARM Linux" and the linux version > + * > + * License terms: GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 > + * Author: Linus Walleij > + */ Any chance to sync your efforts with lcd-linux project (http://lcd-linux.sourceforge.net/) ? They seems to have a support for HD44780 LCD controller. Mattia, project maintainer is on CC copy. Best regards, Ivan Kuten ----------------------------------------------------------- Head of Embedded Software Department Promwad Innovation Company 22, Olshevskogo St., 220073, Minsk, BELARUS Phone/Fax: +375 (17) 312-1246 Skype: vanokuten Web: www.promwad.com -- 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/