(Changed to Running F17 on Beaglebone) Programming GPIO on Fedora

Project Description

A guide and some simple projects that run on different boards on Fedora.

Package appropriate libraries and provide instructions on interfacing devices to the BeagleBoard/BeagleBone and PandaBoard devices using the GPIO/SPI/I2C interfaces.

Expected outcome: appropriate libraries for GPIO/SPI/I2C support will be present in Fedora, and documentation page will be available outlining how to use these features.

Skills required: packaging, testing, writing

Maximum number of participants: 2 (one per board)

Resources: Chris Tyler (ctyler), Peter Robinson (pbrobinson)

== Project Leader(s) ==

Jiecheng Qiu
Wiki Page: User: Jiecheng Qiu
IRC: Jie_Q

Luis Francisco Fuentes
Wiki Page: User: Luis Francisco Fuentes
IRC: Luis

Project Details

Oct 6, 2012. Group Meeting.

We discussed about which hardware and interface we are going to contribute. And the final decision is we are gonna use Pandaboard device. I will work on the GPIO interface, and Luis will work on the I2C interface. One of our member drop the course, so, that is all for now.

We did some research on the library and drivers, here is the google doc link for sharing the information within group member: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJQb7bEK91TNs3f2jqkOiQU3_ro8Z7BhKEbdtaCOoxc/edit

We are going to use the Beaglebone/Beagleboard device for the GPIO interfaces.

Luis Fuentes  : Package appropriate libraries for Beagleboard GPIO
Jiecheng Qiu  : Package appropriate libraries for Beaglebone GPIO

Oct 15, 2012 Update Project Home Page.

Today we update the Project Detail, Project Plan, and Blogs. We will continue do some research on library, and try to package it soon. And we will ask for loan some hardware.

Project Plan

Tracking mechanism (bugzilla, trac, github, ...):

Key contacts:

Goals for each release and plans for reaching those goals:

0.1 release an initial version of our package

0.2 release a final version and get it into the Fedora package review process

0.3 the package has gone through the final release process and is available in Fedora

Communication

Links/Bugs/Tracking

Here is a page that I've recently started writing about GPIO/Serial/I2C/SPI on the Pandaboard: http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Raspberry_Pi_Interfacing

This is an unfinished project started by a CDOT research assistant for interfacing a motion sensor to a Pandaboard: http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Motion_Sensor_Interfacing_for_Panda_Board_based_Dash_Board_System

Information from Chris Tyler

Blogs

Jiecheng Qiu's Blog: http://jcqiu.wordpress.com

Luis Fuentes: http://cty6.wordpress.com

Project News

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