On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 08:54 -0600, Simon Wood wrote: > [resent as I screwed up addressing... sorry] > > This patch is a RFC/POC for the idea of using the iio-subsystem as > the > 'proper' way to communicate the state of motion enabled controllers > to > the Linux internals. > > I have started with the hid-sony driver, with support for the > SixAxis's > 3 Accelerometers. Proper trigger/buffer support will follow shortly, > along > with support for the DS4 and PSMove controllers (which have a much > more > extensive set of motion hardware). > > Once the sensor data is available (over iio) I envision that it will > be > considerably easier to write motion tracking, flight control and AHRS > software in a consistant manner.
Given that the software reading from the sensors will need to be root, how will you send the data from those devices to the applications? > Hopefully this will become the standard way of connecting > controllers, > motion controls and head mounted displays. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
