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Date:      Thu, 26 Jul 2001 23:07:18 +0200
From:      Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@fr.alcove.com>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org, roger@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bktr and smbus
Message-ID:  <20010726230718.C15608@ontario.alcove-fr>
In-Reply-To: <20010719102456.A30157@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:24:56AM -0700
References:  <20010717195452.A9080@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20010719151701.M32191@ontario.alcove-fr> <20010719102456.A30157@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:24:56AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:17:02PM +0200, Nicolas Souchu wrote:
> > At the opposite, FreeBSD has an smbus framework, why don't use it and
> > duplicate the I2C logic everywhere? There's no reason not using FreeBSD
> > smbus.
> 
> Well, my origional argument was that the driver was alwasy going to have
> it's own I2C code (at least until someone gets smbus comitted to NetBSD,
> OpenBSD, and BSD/OS) and the current code was kinda messy.  However,
> roger mentioned that he's planning to use the smbus I2C code for a new
> driver so keeping it and more or less making it mandatory is probably
> the better approach.
> 
> > The solution is rather at http://people.freebsd.org/~nsouch/iicbus.html
> > 
> > I've uploaded a patch for -current. I'd be very happy to get feedback
> > about it.
> 
> Looks good, I can't test it because my bktr cards are both in STABLE

Too bad.

> systems, but with a couple of changes, I was able to remove NBKTR and
> bktr.h from the picture.  Below I've provided alternate diffs for
> conf/files, dev/bktr/* and modules/bktr/Makefile.

Ack, I'll check them.

Thanks,

Nicholas

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