On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Alison Schofield <amsfield22@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ;) Actually it was because I was talking it was at 42.. it did go back to ~90 in the demo which is more sane when I stop talking for a few seconds. There is a reason the doctors tell you to breathe normally and not talk when taking your blood pressure. Not exactly what you are doing in a talk though :). Not doubt there are bugs... but more likely in the oximeter processing script since there is a lot of peak detection magic I'm not sure is 100% accurate :). > > 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 -- 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
