Re: [PATCH 2/2] Input: add touchscreen support for TS-4800

From: Damien Riegel
Date: Sun Dec 13 2015 - 15:56:11 EST


Hi Dmitry

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 08:58:58PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi Damien,
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:11:12AM -0500, Damien Riegel wrote:
> > On this board, the touchscreen, an ads7843, is not handled directly by
> > Linux but by a companion FPGA. This FPGA is memory-mapped and the IP
> > design is very similar to the mk712.
>
> ...
>
> > +
> > + poll_dev = devm_input_allocate_polled_device(&pdev->dev);
> > + if (!poll_dev)
> > + return -ENOMEM;
>
> I wonder how useful touchscreen implemented as polling device is. Isn't
> there an interrupt line for it?

There is an interrupt line between the touchscreen and the FGPA, but not
between the FPGA and the SoC. I agree it is a bit peculiar. Hopefully on
more recent boards, they changed their design to handle the touchscreen
directly with Linux.

Thanks,
Damien

> Thanks.
>
> --
> Dmitry
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