[Development] Embedded (Linux) specific features

Samuel Gaist samuel.gaist at edeltech.ch
Sat Feb 15 21:38:16 CET 2014


On 15 févr. 2014, at 21:05, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I wrote some C++ classes 1.5-2 years ago for some of the following features:
> 
> * GPIO
> * Eeprom
> * Power management
> * LED
> * Hardware Monitoring
> * DMA
> * Real Time Clock
> * I2C
> * SPI
> * etc.
> 
> Out of curiosity: is there anyone working on such classes in Qt? Would
> such features be welcome in Qt in general? If not, why not, if yes,
> where would they fit into the overall architecture?
> 
> It is not necessarily embedded Linux specific, but at least embedded.
> They might be useful on QNX, etc, but I cannot be sure. I would have a
> hard time suggesting place like QtEmbeddedExtras or so. I have no
> clear idea at this point.
> 
> These are generic features, and I only thought about bringing this
> topic up because I see customers and hobbyists reimplementing the
> same, e.g. for the raspberry pi.
> 
> Apologies if there are no interest at all for this.
> 
> Cheers, L.

Hi,

Sounds like a good idea. Almost each time I used an embedded system, I wrote something to interact with one or the other cited element. 

Are you thinking of something like qpa for integration ?


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