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 > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- 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
