[lcdproc] FW: version 0.4/0.5?

[Thomas Runge]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Matt wrote:

> If these can be integrated into the final 0.4 release somehow, then this
> will keep any BSD users happy until 0.5.

Just get the plain 0.4pre9 and apply the patch.

> Also, there are a number of hd44780 patches lurking and also a patch to
> get MtxOrb's on I2C working, are those integrated?

The patch is for plain 0.4pre9. I tried porting the faster hd44780
driver, but failed on a friends OpenBSD box (This friend told me, that
my patch to the slow hd driver works). This lcd driver does not use
a kernel driver to the parallel port, but hacks /dev/io, which is not
really portable.

Unfortunately, I can't test/check this by myself, as all I have is a
Matrix Orbital (which makes me quite happy!).

Porting the i2c stuff really depends on the i2c provider and will be
very platform dependend. Net- and FreeBSD both have i2c busses in their
infrastructure, I'm sure, OpenBSD has it as well, as these guys are
quick at picking up Net- and FreeBSD's work. ;-)


-- 
Tom




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