Touch processing on host CPU

[Nick Dyer]

Hi-

I'm trying to find out which subsystem maintainer I should be talking to -
apologies if I'm addressing the wrong people.

There is a model for doing touch processing where the touch controller
becomes a much simpler device which sends out raw acquisitions (over SPI 
at up to 1Mbps + protocol overheads). All touch processing is then done in
user space by the host CPU. An example of this is NVIDIA DirectTouch - see:
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2012/02/24/industry-adopts-nvidia-directtouch/

In the spirit of "upstream first", I'm trying to figure out how to get a
driver accepted. Obviously it's not an input device in the normal sense. Is
it acceptable just to send the raw touch data out via a char device? Is
there another subsystem which is a good match (eg IIO)? Does the protocol
(there is ancillary/control data as well) need to be documented?

cheers

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Nick Dyer
Senior Software Engineer, ITDev
Fully Managed Technology Design Services
+44 (0)23 80988855  -  http://www.itdev.co.uk

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