[elrepo] el7: Intel Braswell i2c host adapter support

[Phil Perry]

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.
>>>>>>

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>
>>> 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.

If not, then we will need to update it for EL7.3

Thanks,

Phil