Thanks for the words of wisdom, William. I don't want to swim upstream with this, so I guess I'd better learn about creating and installing device drivers in Linux. I found a book on Amazon that looks good, and I think I'll start there.
Thanks again. On Sunday, June 11, 2017 at 6:02:49 PM UTC-6, William Hermans wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 5:01 PM, William Hermans <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Now as far as direct memory access to the I2C hardware. Well, it's not >> impossible, and is probably already being done in the driver module for the >> beaglebone's hardware. In kernel space. So, if you're dead set on learning >> that, you'd need to look into the am335x I2C kernel driver source for that. >> Not sure exactly where to start with that. But you could start by looking >> into the mainboard source file to see which kernel module is being loaded >> for the I2C hardware, then track your way back into the source file. >> >> Or you could just start exploring the kernel source, and perhaps run into >> the I2C driver source that way too. >> > > "mainboard source file" meaning the device tree overlay file for the > beaglebone. > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/92d850b0-e977-467e-8004-8b257361bf5e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
