Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:45:30 +0100 | From | Thomas Petazzoni <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH linux v1 0/4] Seven segment display support |
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Hello,
On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:55:00 -0800, Jaghathiswari Rankappagounder Natarajan wrote:
> Documentation for the binding which provides an interface for adding clock, > data and clear signal GPIO lines to control seven segment display. > > The platform device driver provides an API for displaying on two 7-segment > displays, and implements the required bit-banging. The hardware assumed is > 74HC164 wired to two 7-segment displays. > > The character device driver implements the user-space API for letting a user > write to two 7-segment displays including any conversion methods necessary > to map the user input to two 7-segment displays. > > Adding clock, data and clear signal GPIO lines in the devicetree to control > seven segment display on zaius platform. > > The platform driver matches on the device tree node; the platform driver also > initializes the character device. > > Tested that the seven segment display works properly by writing to the > character device file on a EVB AST2500 board which also has 74HC164 wired > to two 7-segment displays.
FWIW, I proposed a driver for seven segment displays back in 2013:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-January/139986.html
And the feedback from Greg KH was: we don't need a driver for that, do it from userspace. See:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-January/139992.html
So: good luck :-)
Best regards,
Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com
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