Touchscreen

Touchscreen

Cypress CY8MRLN chipset

They are using the CY8MRLN chipset from Cypress in the Palm Pre which is connected over SPI to the core. The CY8MRLN provides some quite interesting features already included in the driver provided by the kernel source:

• Wake-on-touch (configurable from userspace through ioctl's; see include/linux/spi/cy8mrln.h)
• firmware loading (the CY8MRLN provide's a [[1]])
• touchscreen data is forwarded from kernel to usermode interface on /dev/touchscreen

dump data from touchscreen

There are some userland tools from palm in /usr/bin which helps you to dump the data ariving on /dev/touchscreen.

ts-lib implementation

For using the touchscreen with a different os like SHR or FSO we have to implement a plugin for ts-lib which decodes the data from the touchscreen ariving through /dev/touchscreen. Palm uses therefore there own implementaton /usr/bin/hidd which also provides plugin for other input system like the keyboard or the system buttons.

Current problem with the ts-lib plugin is that the structure of the data arriving on /dev/touchsreen is not known. There is another driver for a different touchscreen chipset for android available on the cypress homepage (http://www.cypress.com/?rID=40085) which includes decoding of data from the touchscreen chipset. I assume that the data from the chipset used in the Palm Pre is nearly the same.

The format is totaly different to the one on that page. --Heinervdm 20:14, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

First development is here: http://github.com/playya/tslib

Screen format

The screen is devided in 70 (7x10) fields + 7 fields for the gesture area

Dataformat

The dataset has 167 byte and is structured like the following struct:

<source lang="c"> struct ts_frame {

   uint16_t frame_start; // constant:
   uint16_t field[77];   // contains the intensity of the 7*11 fields
   uint16_t frame_end;   // frame end indicator; always 0xffff
   uint8_t seq_nr1;      // incremented if seq_nr0 = scanrate
   uint16_t seq_nr2;     // incremeted if seq_nr1 = 255
   uint8_t unknown[4];   // timestap?
   uint8_t seq_nr0;      // incremented: from 0 to scanrate
   uint8_t null_value;   // \0

}; </source>