[Lcd4linux-devel] New device target for lcd4linux

[Jeroen D. <je...@sp...>]

Hi,

Because this is my first post, I'll introduce myself: I'm Jeroen, a 
hardware hacker who runs a site with electronics stuff at 
http://spritesmods.com. Please do check out my projects if you're 
interested in that kind of stuff :)

I recently got my hands on a cheap (E10) photoframe, which sported a nice 
128x128 color LCD and a USB-connection, all based on a ST2205 or ST2203 
microchip. To make a long story short: I hacked the firmware and put 
together a library so the display becomes directly accessable via the 
USB-port. The long story is on my site: 
http://spritesmods.com/?art=picframe&f=l4l .

One of the things I have written is a patch for lcd4linux to support the 
picture frame. For now, I distribute it as a diff along with the firmware 
patches and the library, but I'd like them to end up in the lcd4linux code 
itself.

I followed the driver_howto ('grats for a good explanation of how to write 
a driver, btw, it was quite helpful) and I ended up with a diff that 
should add the st2205 driver to lcd4linux. I uploaded it here:
http://spritesmods.com/picframe/patch-lcd4linux.diff
A warning: it seems that the indent.sh-script changed a bit more than just 
my patch. No idea if that's intentional or not.

The driver is, as far as I've tested it, stable: my server has a nice 
screen telling me its load, disk I/O etc all on a nice jpg backdrop with 
alpha shading for about a week now, without a hitch.

So, the question is: is my patch OK to be incorporated in the lcd4linux 
svn-tree, or is there still something I should attend to?

Jeroen/Sprite_tm