Hi IIO Community, I attended the Linux Foundation's Embedded Linux and OpenIoT Summit in Portland, Oregon recently. I've appended a few excerpts from my blog write-up below and the full text of my report is available here: https://outreachyiio.blogspot.com/2017/03/embedded-linux-conference-openiot.html alisons 2 Things that made me go hmmm: 1) There are developers who believe that user space drivers are more efficient than kernel drivers. They don't mean more efficient as in they don't want to bother upstreaming the driver. They actually mean more efficient in that they think the user space driver performs better. I didn't meet one of those developers...they were only whispered about ;) 2) Android Things (Intel & Google product) will not use our lovely IIO drivers. They will not include any non-essential drivers in the kernel image and there will not be a way to rebuild it. They have set up a git repository for the world to share user space drivers for sensors. IIO Community Sightings: Matt Ranostay Matt gave a great IIO Subsystem presentation!!! It contained a live demo of one of his more recent driver additions: heart rate and pulse oximeter. When Matt's hear rate only measured 42, he wrote it off to a loose connection, but I'm not convinced. I may go look for a bug in that driver ;) IIO Community Hindsight: David Lechner When I met David displaying his ev3 devices at the technical showcase, I didn't know of him from the IIO community. David has some drivers he wants upstreamed to IIO. Potential Outreachy projects? I'm fuzzy on this. Can we add support for sensors that basically have no datasheet, but that David has reverse engineered? IIO Community Hindsight: Jason Kridner Jason gave a presentation and also showed off some beaglebone devices at the technical showcase. Jason noted in his presentation that he'd like to see additional sensor support in IIO. -- 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
