Re: Cutiepi, serdevs, and right way to handle its power button

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Sep 21 2022 - 13:17:18 EST


On Wed 2022-09-21 17:45:33, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 10:56:37PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Cutiepie is a small handheld tablet. It has embedded controller
> > connected via serial to the main system, handling stuff such as power
> > button and battery percentage. Currently they are using userland
> > deamon for communication, but I believe that should eventually go into
> > kernel.
> >
> > For debugging, it would be really nice to be able to attach my module
> > to given serdev. Is such thing possible? I see "[PATCH v2 00/19]
> > Dynamically load/remove serdev devices via sysfs*" series
> > (https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg30732.html) but I'm not
> > sure if equivalent functionality exists in mainline kernel?
> >
> > Is there some kind of similar hardware already supported by mainline?
> > Using driver as a reference might be easier than starting from
> > scratch.
>
> Is it arm or x86 based tablet?

arm64, but CPU architecture really should not matter.

Best regards,
Pavel
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