Hi, Based on my discussion in IRC with Michael Balmer, I can develop a driver for I2C based LCD device during GSoC period. This driver will provide a tty like interface. I will extend this to a LCD framework after GSoC period as it seems to be a bigger task.
Regards, Dinesh Rathinasamy Thangavel On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:37 PM, dinesh thangavel <rtdinesh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > My name is Dinesh. I am interested to work on "LED/LCD > Generic API" for GSOC'13. I am an Electronics undergraduate from > College Of Engineering, Guindy. I worked as a Research intern at > Integrated Systems Laboratory where I had exposure to real time DSP > applications. I have been accepted to Master's program in Computer > Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison for Fall'13. For past 2 > years I have been working as software Engineer at Cluster Wireless , > where I worked on developing network applications in ARM architecture. > I am excited to work on developing a generic framework to > interface LED/LCD. For the GSOC Period i planed to do the following > tasks > > 1. Add a generic framework for LED/LCD device drivers. > 2. Develop a sample Device driver. > 3. Develop a test application to test the device and driver functionality > > I have a Raspberry Pi board with me as a hardware. I have found the > NetBSD port for Raspberry PI here[1]. The current port has support of > I2C and I found out some LCD's with I2C support. I am comfortable with > working on Raspberry Pi and I2C LCDs. I would like to know about if > there's any specific preference for hardware ? Also in the project > page there was a mention about OpenBSD API, it would be helpful if I > get some pointers on that. > I am open to ideas ans suggestions. > > [1] http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/ > > > > Regards, > Dinesh Rathinasamy Thangavel.
