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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
>> 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.
>> >
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