On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 01:02:22PM +0800, Zhang, Xing Z wrote: > > > >On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 05:04:13PM +0800, Zhang, Xing Z wrote: > >> Hi developers: > >> I'd like to buy some external sensors(external means they can be > >> connected to my machine through USB cable) for reference. Basically, I > >will > >> order some phidgets' sensors like vibrator, precision light sensor ... > >> These sensors will be supported in sensor framework in further. I > >> wonder what sensors you are interested in, pls recommend your favor. I > >will > >> consider supporting them in sensor framework. > >> Please note only USB connecting sensors are candidates. If you have > >> some specific sensors embedded in your platform, feel free to send me a > >> patch enables it in sensor framework. Thanks. > > > >Phidget devices are already supported just fine on Linux with their > >userspace libusb-based library, so no new work needs to be done here at > >all. > > > >hope this helps, > > Thanks for pointing out:) Sensor Framework provides identical API interfaces > for Moblin(definitely for Linux) with hiding hardware details. We are a > pluggable system, so applications need not care vendor of sensor they are > accessing, plugins of framework talk to sensor driver or sensor library and > push data to applications thru API of framework. > > Phidget's userspace library is well organized, leveraging it I have > supported its USB accelerometer in sensor framework. Meanwhile I found > phidget only allows application exclusively accesses device while sensor > framework provides multi-access capability. > > I hope my framework could support more and more sensors from different > vendors, then developers could focus on application itself without learning > various driver interfaces or libraries. > > Below are homepage of sensor framework and its API reference. We are still > in developing, comments and patches are always welcome. > > http://moblin.org/projects/sensor-framework > > http://moblin.org/sites/all/files/moblin2.1api/html/sensor/index.html
So, is this going to try to unify _all_ Linux sensor frameworks? Are you going to support the in-kernel sensor and comedi framework as well? If so, I would suggest starting to do those two first, and then good luck on sucking in everything else, there is a _very_ large body of different frameworks out there. greg k-h _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
