Re: [ddccontrol-devel] Nvidia proprietary driver support for I2C /bus interface?

[Nicolas B. <ni...@bo...>]

Hi Will,

William Hollingworth wrote:
> Hi Nicolas
>
> I was just forwarded this link to some updated documentation from Nvidia.
>
> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/1.0-8762/README/appendix-z.html
>
>  From what I understand from this, it seems to mean they are now 
> supporting the "/dev" interface method for DDC/CI. What do you think?
>
> If this is true, then it would no longer be necessary to use the PCI 
> interface method if you didn't want to - right?
>
> Has anyone actually tried their latest drivers to see if if this 
> works? I haven't had chance yet.
>   
I finally found the time to try this, and it works fine. I'll update the
documentation.

I wish every binary drivers supported this interface (for example, ATI
doesn't), so we could drop direct pci interface method (which is a nice
workaround, but has nothing to do in a userspace program).

Best regards,

Nicolas