> Richard has an i2c and spi driver for the pi. I grafted the inferno > i2c file system interface on top of Richards driver, though > the sub addressed reads are awaiting my return from > holiday.
Steve, Is all that on sources somewhere or accessible otherwise? Last night, I pulled devbcm from plan9-bcm on github and folded it into the latest pi image Richard posted on sources, but I haven't done anything other than compile and boot a kernel with it yet. I've ordered a few toys to play with including a little 3.5" LCD with touch screen that talks SPI. So I'm going to try to get that up and running soon. > I would love a > similar machine with Gbit ether and 2 or 3 sata 3s to > replace my ageing file server. Same here. In fact, I've ordered a Banana Pi to see just how close it does come to being compatible. I'll let everyone know if it does boot the rpi images. As an update to the whole thing, I've decided to go ahead and use the Raspberry Pi at least this term. Given the time available, I suspect I'd get too caught up in getting a stable port running on anything else and not do what I need getting classes prepared. If I teach this again sometime, maybe I'll get a chance to do more. I will say I very much like the documentation that TI has for the SoC in the BBB, especially compared to what passes for Broadcom documentation. The reference manual for the AM335X processor is nearly 5000 pages. And there are several other things I like about the BBB over the pi, but who knows when my supply of round tuits will allow me to spend much time working on it. My thanks to everyone who has given me suggestions. There are definitely some new machines I hadn't seen before that I'll be checking out. BLS
