Am 01.05.13 15:49, schrieb dinesh thangavel: > Hi, > Based on my discussion in IRC with Michael Balmer, I can develop a > driver for I2C based LCD device during GSoC period. This driver will > provide a tty like interface. I will extend this to a LCD framework > after GSoC period as it seems to be a bigger task.
Find me on IRC anytime to discuss this. My name, btw, is _Marc_ Balmer, not Michael Balmer ;) - Marc > > Regards, > Dinesh Rathinasamy Thangavel > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:37 PM, dinesh thangavel <rtdinesh...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> 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.