[meta-freescale] Issue with egalax_ts in linux-boundary

[Erik Botö]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Eric Nelson
<eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:
> Have you compared against the docs?
>
> I think this should be convered by this kernel document:
>         https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt?id=refs/tags/v3.10
>

Yes that's what I have read. It's not entirely clear to me if it's ok
or not to do as the driver currently does, but it's not following the
example pattern of protocol A from the multi-touch-protocol.txt.

> BTW, I'm happy to hear that Qt is supporting multi-touch. I didn't
> realize that this was in the works.
>

Yes Qt5 has good multi-point support.

>
> This list is as good as anyplace to discuss this, especially since
> the eGalax touch screen is supported by most Freescale boards as
> well as those produced by us.
>
> Note that 'linux-boundary' for Yocto has multi-touch support specfically
> disabled through the kernel configuration because most non-Android
> environments get confused by multi-touch.
>
> Since the multi-touch drivers are mostly used under Android, we'll want
> to investigate how this change affects that platform as well.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Eric

Cheers,
Erik