Re: Is IIO the appropriate subsystem for a thermal camera sensor?

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Hi Lucas,

2015-10-26 8:53 GMT+01:00 Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Lucas,
>
> Adding linux-iio and linux-media, I hope you don't mind.
>
> On 10/23/2015 06:58 PM, Lucas Magasweran wrote:
>>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> My colleague, Roberto Cornetti, attended your IIO talk at LinuxCon
>> recently and is using the IIO subsystem for an I2C IMU.
>>
>
> Glad to hear that :)
>
>> My question is if IIO the appropriate subsystem for a thermal camera
>> sensor. The driver needs to acquire frames over SPI and configure the
>> sensor via I2C. It also has to respond to a GPIO interrupt to
>> synchronize with the camera.
>
>
> I am not sure exactly about this. My feeling is that this should go with the
> v4l subsystem thus Cc-ing linux-media.

This is definitely a V4L2 driver. Note however that AFAIK, no sensor
is currently sending frames from SPI right now... Nothing impossible
though :).

> Do you have any datasheet for this sensor?
>
> At some point [1] we considered introducing the fingerprint sensor as an IIO
> device, but that didn't quite fit. So, we reconsidered using v4l.
> I this is your case too :).
>
> Hope this helps.
> Daniel.
>
>
> [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141769805614596&w=2
>
>
>
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