On 5/1/10, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 13:48, Christoph Mair <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear community, >> >> we are proud to release a hardware extension for our beloved Freerunner: a >> navigation board! >> >> What is it? >> The Freerunner Navigation Board is a small PCB which is able to measure >> rotations as well as the magnetic field in 3D respectively (i.e. compass >> and >> gyroscopes integrated). The navigation board can be integrated in the >> existing >> Freerunner case. >> >> How can we test it? >> In order to test the functionality of the sensors we developed a monitor >> application for sensors written completely in Vala. For more detailed >> information on both, Freerunner Navigation Board and Sensor Monitor, >> please >> refer to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Freerunner_Navigation_Board >> >> What can we do with it? >> No idea. Perhaps someone of you can find an appropriate use :p >> >> We are looking forward to get feedback and comments. >> >> Cheers, >> Christoph & Michele > > Great! Could you write mail about it on shr-devel list with all needed > information about drivers? I would like to see drivers for it included > by default in SHR :) > > -- > Sebastian Krzyszkowiak > dos First of all, hello to everybody... we are new on this list.
currently the drivers for it are available at http://gitorious.org/freerunner-navigation-board . For some of the sensors we have kernel and userspace drivers while for some other (e.g. the compass) we have just kernel drivers. Now the question is: while for some sensors it makes sense to bring a kernel driver to the mainstream line (such as the compass) for the gyros that are connected through ADC it is not inherently clear. Thats why we created a userspace lib for it. So what is your opinion guys: - Should we either go for kernel drivers for both, gyros (i.e. ADCs) and compass, or... - ... should we go for userspace libs only, or... - ... should we go for kernel drivers for compass and userspace libs for the "gyros" (as we have currently)? Christoph & Michele _______________________________________________ Shr-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-devel
