Just adding a note that even though we have the above patches from comments #21 and #22 already included in our Saucy kernel, apparently Intel notes we'll need some additional patches as well. Just putting a note here to keep the Saucy task open till we have those patches applied. Intel will post a note here for which additional patches are needed.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1083994 Title: [Feature] Haswell ULT - Near Field Communication(NFC) support Status in intel: Fix Committed Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “neard” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “linux” source package in Raring: Fix Released Status in “neard” source package in Raring: Fix Released Status in “linux” source package in Saucy: Incomplete Status in “neard” source package in Saucy: Fix Released Bug description: NFC is a short range wireless protocol for sharing data between devices or between and tags. Tag is NFC passive device - it can be in the form of a sticker or little chip that has information (e.g. URL) that can be passed on to the phone device for example. This link has a lot of information about the different tag types: http://kimtag.com/s/nfc_tags Magnetics Peak is the NFC module for the Shark Bay Mobile and ULT platforms. The Magnetics Peak NFC enablement will require: 1. neard neard is a userspace NFC daemon that runs on top of the NFC upstream kernel APIs and provides simple NFC oriented D-Bus API. Without neard applications will have to talk directly to the low level NFC kernel APIs. neard provides a simple and clean D-Bus APIs for any application to use without worrying about the NFC technicl details behind it. neard is already available, and there will future updates to neard through 01.org - https://01.org/linux-nfc 2. Magnetics Peak NFC driver Enable the MP chipset support. This enablement will depends on the MEI driver. 3. Management Engine Interface (MEI) kernel bus driver The Management Engine Interface should be seen as a virtual bus for regular drivers to register against. This driver implements an MEI specific bus type and provide a bus I/O API for external drivers to use against. 4. NFC HCI improvements to support Magnetics Peak specific HCI quirks Magnetics Peak deviates from the standard HCI specifications and thus the upstream kernel NFC HCI stack needs a few additional patches to support those tiny differences. Upstream schedule information: Neard - released on https://01.org/linux-nfc Magnetics Peak NFC driver - v3.9 MEI driver - v3.10 NFC HCI patches - v3.9 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/intel/+bug/1083994/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
