Yeah wow, I already said that, hah ! Too much going on . . . On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 9:32 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rick, also for what it's worth. Getting it compiled and working on a > system does seem very straight forward and is shown step by step on that > landing page you linked to. > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 9:30 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Not sure I understand what you're getting at, but I've read that iio has >> at least two methods of access. Slow( sysfs ), and fast( mmap()). I'm not >> sure that the "fast" method driver exists for our board here in the context >> of the ADC's but certainly the slow sysfs method does. As for the rest of >> the things mentioned on that landing page you pasted a link to . . . it >> seems that he steps are very straight forward to get working, and indeed >> laid out on that exact page. >> >> What are you wanting to do with iio ? The idea of the library does >> intrigue me too. But I'm, not exactly sure I have the time to learn >> yet-another-abstraction-layer . . . >> >> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com> wrote: >> >>> libiio (along with additional stuff in the kernel that doesn't appear to >>> be in 4.1.x-ti) provides for fast ADC access, rather than getting at it >>> through sysfs. >>> >>> > On Oct 8, 2015, at 20:07 , William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > I believe the ADC already uses a libiio "driver". Assuming it is the >>> same thing I'm thinking of. But for instance when you load the ADC device >>> tree file, it in turn loaded the iio:device0 object for the ADC. >>> > >>> > Like demonstrated on my blog post here: >>> http://www.embeddedhobbyist.com/2015/10/beaglebone-black-adc/ >>> > >>> > With that said, I do not purport to know very much about it. Just that >>> it exists. >>> > >>> > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com> >>> wrote: >>> > What would it take to get libiio: >>> > >>> > >>> https://wiki.analog.com/resources/tools-software/linux-software/libiio >>> > >>> > Into the BBB kernels? I think this would be amazing. >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Rick Mann >>> > rm...@latencyzero.com >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>> > --- >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>> > --- >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Rick Mann >>> rm...@latencyzero.com >>> >>> >>> -- >>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
