[elrepo] el7: Intel Braswell i2c host adapter support

[Björn Gerhart]

> Am 27.11.2016 um 00:58 schrieb Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org>:
> 
>> On 18/01/16 19:17, Phil Perry wrote:
>>> On 18/01/16 08:43, Björn Gerhart wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> Am 16.01.2016 um 17:09 schrieb Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org>:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 15/01/16 18:12, Phil Perry wrote:
>>>>>>> On 15/01/16 17:16, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Björn Gerhart <gerhart at posteo.de> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> afaik the el7 kernel yet doesn't support the i2c host adapter of the
>>>>>>> Braswell chipset by Intel. However, it's possible to simply compile a newer
>>>>>>> release (taken from 3.19) of the i2c-i801 source code against the el7
>>>>>>> kernel, and the module seems to work properly.
>>>>>>> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> 
>>>> I'd appreciate if you could test and confirm the package works as expected.
>>>> 
>>> The package gets installed properly on my CentOS 7.2, and the module detects the hardware properly. Excellent!
>>> 
>> 
>> Brilliant - thanks for testing and confirming.
>> 
>>> Best - Björn
>> 
> 
> Björn,
> 
> If you're still on the list, I wonder if you could confirm if the EL7.3 kernel driver now natively supports your hardware. If so, we can deprecate the package we released.
> 

Hi Phil,

yes I'll give it a try and report. However, is there already a compiled preliminary el7.3 kernel rpm package which is freely available I could install therefore?

Best - Björn