[Development] Embedded (Linux) specific features

[Thomas Senyk]

On Sunday, 16 February, 2014 0:36:39 Laszlo Papp wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles
> 
> <pgquiles at elpauer.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > I'm interested in almost all of the above, (and CAN bus communication)
> 
> I wrote a semi-good implementation about a bit more than one year ago,
> but currently I do not use it since I switched to a new project. Fwiw,
> no maintainer has been interested, so it did not go live (due to also
> my project switch):
> http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2013-June/011243.html


I've no immediate need, but I'm pretty sure I'll stumble over one/all of them 
sooner then later.

+1 for playground project.

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