Raspberry Pi Prospects and/or Alternative

[Nobody III]

By the way, Norman, what would be a good project for me to get started on
while I'm waiting for the people who understand the AHCI and part_blk
drivers?

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Nobody III <hungryninja101 at ...9...>
wrote:

> 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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>>
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