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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] "gpio device" for Plan 9
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 17:34:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54bcd5aa745b69e3cf73fbe39ca499bf@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D14763E3-0449-4C67-B6CD-C36AF9273BE1@gmail.com>

> Using slightly modified (unmodified in most cases) uartmini.c GPIO functions i implemented #G/gpio device:
> Structure is as follows:
> #G/gpio/
> 	/bcm/ ...
> 	/board/ ...
> 	/wpi/ ...
> 	/OK
> 
> - bcm uses board revision specific pin numbering
> - board uses human readable pin addressing (board revision agnostic)
> - wpi uses wiringPi pin assignment (board revision agnostic)
> - OK pin can be used to switch on/off OK LED on the board
> 
> Each directory above contains files that are mapped to pins.
> Maybe it is an overkill, i don’t know.

first off, cool!

#G seems fine to me.

 it might be just as well to just export only the board wiring, letting
something in the boot-time configuration set this up.

seems worth implementing uartmini (and spi) on top, and allowing group
pin allocation to support this.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-29 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-29 22:04 Krystian Lewandowski
2013-12-29 22:34 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2013-12-30  7:32 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2013-12-30 22:38   ` Shane Morris
     [not found] ` <35A33F66-EF03-4659-ABA1-F25082DBFE41@gmail.com>
2013-12-31 17:46   ` Krystian Lewandowski
2013-12-31 19:18     ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-31 19:37       ` Shane Morris
2013-12-31 19:48         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2013-12-31 19:50         ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-31 20:45           ` Shane Morris
2013-12-31 22:03             ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-31 22:17               ` Shane Morris
2013-12-31 22:52                 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-31 22:57           ` Krystian Lewandowski
2013-12-31 23:16             ` Shane Morris
2013-12-31 23:35               ` Shane Morris
2014-01-01  0:04               ` Krystian Lewandowski
2014-01-01  0:12                 ` Shane Morris
2014-01-01  1:12     ` Matthew Veety
2014-01-01 11:38     ` Richard Miller
2014-01-01 22:16     ` erik quanstrom
2014-02-28 23:30       ` Krystian Lewandowski

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