Steve, Krystian in Poland has tackled GPIO on the RaspberryPi. I can fish up his repos if needed...
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Steven Stallion <sstall...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Salman Javaid <javaid.sal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Steven, this USB 3 [0] device driver implementation seems to be an > > interesting project. Is this something you will be interested in? > > > > [0] http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/TODO/index.html > > That's going to be a bit much to chew off for a student project. USB > is a non-trivial mess of pain and frustration, even for the > experienced. If someone is getting started with driver work, the most > successful path will likely be implementing a simple part (even if > it's an old one). Ethernet and UARTs come to mind - they tend to be > the simplest. I think at one point there was a call out to get GPIO > working on the Raspberry Pi - that would be a good summer project if > it hasn't been done already. GPIO can be a lot of fun, especially if > you have a couple of protoboards laying around. > > Anyhow, when it comes to GSoC it's far more important to focus on > attainable goals - it's a lot more fun for the student (and the > mentor) when something working comes out at the end. > > HTH, > > Steve > >
