Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Alan Cox) | | Subject | Re: [offtopic] Re: I2c was: Cobalt Micro (was Re: Build your own Mo therboards) | | Date | Thu, 10 Sep 1998 03:00:57 +0100 (BST) |
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> Why in heavens name would one want to do anything with I2C, unless you > have specific hardware that uses it? I can't see any rational reason for a
Its a handy way of chaining stupid toys to a PC (thermometer, lcd panel, doorbell etc)
> Linux driver, unless someone felt a burning need to teach the parallel > port how to speak I2C (and I don't want to think about the polling > overhead.)
Its been done.
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