Marc Dietrich | 32890b9 | 2011-05-19 16:34:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | NVEC: An NVidia compliant Embedded Controller Protocol Implemenation |
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| 3 | This is an implementation of the NVEC protocol used to communicate with an |
| 4 | embedded controller (EC) via I2C bus. The EC is an I2C master while the host |
| 5 | processor is the I2C slave. Requests from the host processor to the EC are |
| 6 | started by triggering a gpio line. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | There is no written documentation of the protocol available to the public, |
| 9 | but the source code[1] of the published nvec reference drivers can be a guide. |
| 10 | This driver is currently only used by the AC100 project[2], but it is likely, |
| 11 | that other Tegra boards (not yet mainlined, if ever) also use it. |
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| 13 | [1] e.g. http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?p=linux-2.6.git;a=tree;f=arch/arm/mach-tegra/nvec;hb=android-tegra-2.6.32 |
| 14 | [2] http://gitorious.org/ac100, http://launchpad.net/ac100 |