Re: Is IIO the appropriate subsystem for a thermal camera sensor?

[Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@intel.com>]

Hi Lucas,

Adding linux-iio and linux-media, I hope you don't mind.

On 10/23/2015 06:58 PM, Lucas Magasweran wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> My colleague, Roberto Cornetti, attended your IIO talk at LinuxCon
> recently and is using the IIO subsystem for an I2C IMU.
>

Glad to hear that :)

> My question is if IIO the appropriate subsystem for a thermal camera
> sensor. The driver needs to acquire frames over SPI and configure the
> sensor via I2C. It also has to respond to a GPIO interrupt to
> synchronize with the camera.

I am not sure exactly about this. My feeling is that this should go with 
the v4l subsystem thus Cc-ing linux-media.

Do you have any datasheet for this sensor?

At some point [1] we considered introducing the fingerprint sensor as an 
IIO device, but that didn't quite fit. So, we reconsidered using v4l.
I this is your case too :).

Hope this helps.
Daniel.


[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141769805614596&w=2