On 11/26/2011 06:30 PM, Alessandro Rubini wrote: > This RFC patch-set introduces the ZIO framework for input/output, > which will be used in the new series of drivers by the BE-CO-HT > group at CERN. > > The use-case it is meant to cover is very fast I/O with > hardware-provided timestamps. The first production driver we will > support is a 100Ms/s 4-channel 14-bit ADC (developed on ohwr: see > http://www.ohwr.org/projects/fmc-adc-100m14b4cha ). We need similar > bandwidth on output. > > The synchronization engine of that FMC card and other ones is going to > be White Rabbit (http://www.ohwr.org/projects/white-rabbit). > > Currently, the patch-set includes one example driver (zio-zero) > that behaves like /dev/zero and /dev/urandom. Other drivers will > come soon, both demo and real hardware. > > Slides for a tutorial on the design ideas are online here: > http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/881/zio-111123.pdf > > A list of pending issues and development plans is online at: > http://www.ohwr.org/projects/zio/wiki/Todo You've Cc'ed the IIO mailinglist, so you know about the IIO framework. Could you explain why you need a new framework and your devices can't be supported by the IIO framework? After a first quick glance ZIO looks to me like a subset of IIO. - Lars -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
