Raspberry Pi Prospects and/or Alternative

[Nobody III]

Thanks a lot!
On Jan 27, 2015 11:41 AM, "Jeroen "Slim" van Gelderen" <askslim at ...9...>
wrote:

> Funny you should say this. I've been building a GPIO driver for the
> Raspberry Pi, as well as a generic dummy GPIO driver that plays back input
> events from a list. (So it is possible to write and test programs that
> require GPIO access without physical GPIO hardware present.)
>
> I'm travelling for the next 7-10 days but will clean and contribute the
> code after that.
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Norman Feske <
> norman.feske at ...1...> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> > Two things I would be very much interested in (after SD card support)
>> > are GPIO and camera support. Any progress on those?
>>
>> don't wait for it, go for it!
>>
>> In your prior postings, you stated that you have no experience with
>> developing device drivers. Well, creating a GPIO driver for the
>> Raspberry Pi would be the *perfect* way to change that:
>>
>> * You apparently have an application in mind, which provides you
>>   with the right incentive.
>>
>> * The device is relatively simple. So you won't get overwhelmed.
>>
>> * There is a huge body of public information about this particular
>>   topic (using GPIOs on the Raspberry Pi) available.
>>
>> * Others like Jeroen may appreciate your work.
>>
>> * Within Genode's source tree, there exist GPIO drivers for other
>>   platforms that you may take as reference.
>>
>> All it takes is the willingness to learn and to get your hands dirty
>> with programming.
>>
>> Regards
>> Norman
>>
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