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powerpc: Add support for briq front panel

PATCH In review Benjamin Herrenschmidt 1 participant 2 messages Jul 4, 2006 Char and misc drivers

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PATCH 1/1 powerpc: Add support for briq front panel

This adds the driver for the Briq front panel. This is a cleaned up version of a driver that has been floating around for some time now, initially written by Karsten Jeppesen <[email protected]> and cleaned up by jk and myself.

Signed-off-by Jeremy Kerr <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
drivers/char/Kconfig +14 -0
Index: linux-irq-work/drivers/char/Kconfig
===================================================================
@@ -495,6 +495,20 @@
 	  When not in use, each legacy PTY occupies 12 bytes on 32-bit
 	  architectures and 24 bytes on 64-bit architectures.
 
+config BRIQ_PANEL
+	tristate 'Total Impact briQ front panel driver'
+	---help---
+	  The briQ is a small footprint CHRP computer with a frontpanel VFD, a
+	  tristate led and two switches. It is the size of a CDROM drive.
+
+	  If you have such one and want anything showing on the VFD then you
+	  must answer Y here.
+
+	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
+	  module will be called briq_panel.
+
+	  It's safe to say N here.
+
 config PRINTER
 	tristate "Parallel printer support"
 	depends on PARPORT
drivers/char/Makefile +1 -0
Index: linux-irq-work/drivers/char/Makefile
===================================================================
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_VIOTAPE)		+= viotape.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HVCS)		+= hvcs.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SGI_MBCS)		+= mbcs.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_BRIQ_PANEL)	+= briq_panel.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_PRINTER)		+= lp.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TIPAR)		+= tipar.o
drivers/char/briq_panel.c new file +267 -0

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Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Add support for briq front panel (#)

This adds the driver for the Briq front panel. This is a cleaned up version of a driver that has been floating around for some time now, initially written by Karsten Jeppesen <[email protected]> and cleaned up by jk and myself.

Signed-off-by Jeremy Kerr <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>

---
This version of the patch fixes a problem with getting "illegal seek" all over the
place when reading from the driver.

drivers/char/Kconfig +14 -0
Index: linux-irq-work/drivers/char/Kconfig
===================================================================
@@ -495,6 +495,20 @@
 	  When not in use, each legacy PTY occupies 12 bytes on 32-bit
 	  architectures and 24 bytes on 64-bit architectures.
 
+config BRIQ_PANEL
+	tristate 'Total Impact briQ front panel driver'
+	---help---
+	  The briQ is a small footprint CHRP computer with a frontpanel VFD, a
+	  tristate led and two switches. It is the size of a CDROM drive.
+
+	  If you have such one and want anything showing on the VFD then you
+	  must answer Y here.
+
+	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
+	  module will be called briq_panel.
+
+	  It's safe to say N here.
+
 config PRINTER
 	tristate "Parallel printer support"
 	depends on PARPORT
drivers/char/Makefile +1 -0
Index: linux-irq-work/drivers/char/Makefile
===================================================================
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_VIOTAPE)		+= viotape.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HVCS)		+= hvcs.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SGI_MBCS)		+= mbcs.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_BRIQ_PANEL)	+= briq_panel.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_PRINTER)		+= lp.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TIPAR)		+= tipar.o
drivers/char/briq_panel.c new file +268 -0

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