Re: Linux ELC & OpenIoT Report

[Alison Schofield <amsfield22@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 08:04:21AM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5 March 2017 23:52:04 GMT+00:00, Alison Schofield <amsfield22@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Hi IIO Community,
> >
> >I attended the Linux Foundation's Embedded Linux and OpenIoT Summit in
> >Portland, Oregon recently.
> >
> >I've appended a few excerpts from my blog write-up below and the full
> >text of my report is available here:
> >https://outreachyiio.blogspot.com/2017/03/embedded-linux-conference-openiot.html
> >
> >alisons

8< ......... snipped a bunch to focus on the ev3 sensor ...............

> >IIO Community Hindsight: David Lechner 
> >When I met David displaying his ev3 devices at the technical showcase,
> >I
> >didn't know of him from the IIO community. David has some drivers he
> >wants upstreamed to IIO.  Potential Outreachy projects?  I'm fuzzy on
> >this. Can we add support for sensors that basically have no datasheet,
> >but that David has reverse engineered?
> 
> Sure we can. Lots of drivers in the wider kernel are reverse engineered. A few in IIO may well have been.
> 
> Hmm would take a slightly brave outreach y candidate perhaps.
>

I'm going to try to pull David in here, so he can fill in & correct me.

I think David has kernel drivers he has written (loadable kernel
modules - not user space drivers) that could be pushed upstream.
(still could take significant bravery I guess)

David, Am I getting anything right here?  And, are there any destined for IIO?

Thanks,
alisons