Hello, My name is Dinesh. I am interested to work on "LED/LCD Generic API" for GSOC'13. I am an Electronics undergraduate from College Of Engineering, Guindy. I worked as a Research intern at Integrated Systems Laboratory where I had exposure to real time DSP applications. I have been accepted to Master's program in Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison for Fall'13. For past 2 years I have been working as software Engineer at Cluster Wireless , where I worked on developing network applications in ARM architecture. I am excited to work on developing a generic framework to interface LED/LCD. For the GSOC Period i planed to do the following tasks
1. Add a generic framework for LED/LCD device drivers. 2. Develop a sample Device driver. 3. Develop a test application to test the device and driver functionality I have a Raspberry Pi board with me as a hardware. I have found the NetBSD port for Raspberry PI here[1]. The current port has support of I2C and I found out some LCD's with I2C support. I am comfortable with working on Raspberry Pi and I2C LCDs. I would like to know about if there's any specific preference for hardware ? Also in the project page there was a mention about OpenBSD API, it would be helpful if I get some pointers on that. I am open to ideas ans suggestions. [1] http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/ Regards, Dinesh Rathinasamy Thangavel.