[En-Nut-Discussion] Bitbanging Drivers: Configuration in library or user code

[Uwe Bonnes]

>>>>> "Harald" == Harald Kipp <harald.kipp at egnite.de> writes:

    Harald> Hi Uwe, On 28.09.2012 11:33, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
 
    >> the advantage of the bitbangig drivers is that they can use any GPIO
    >> pin.

    Harald> This is just one aspect. Another idea behind the GPIO API is,
    Harald> that you can get a new board up and running without much
    Harald> effort. Porting the Nut/OS kernel to a new platform can be done
    Harald> in a few days. But Nut/OS is not very interesting as a kernel,
    Harald> it's main advantage is peripheral support. If we have a number
    Harald> of platform independent bit-banging drivers based on the GPIO
    Harald> API, you only need to port this API first, which should be quite
    Harald> easy. As soon as this is done, you may use I2C, SPI and more,
    Harald> based on the GPIO drivers. That further means, that you can
    Harald> access FAT formatted memory cards, calendar chips, serial flash
    Harald> etc. with standard C I/O functions.

    Harald> When more time is available, you may add better drivers using
    Harald> the peripheral hardware of that chip.

I didn't mention that aspect to keep the mail short.

...

    Harald> Your latest changes to gpio_avr try to combine both, having the
    Harald> clean code of the runtime API without too much processor
    Harald> overhead.

Should I go ahead and change the nut/dev code still using porttrans to the
use of the GPIO api?
I tried for 
nut/dev/sbi_mmc.c |   92 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------------
 1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
and got smaller code.

However I don't know about the status of the GPIO api on Platforms beside
AVR and STM32. And I have no hardware to test..

...

    Harald> I haven't done anything with 1wire so far, sorry.

I don't want you to test the code. But I want some feedback about how the
interface is designed.

    Harald> In general I have another problem with your latest changes, but
    Harald> will open up a different thread for this.

I think it is solved now as some later mail from you implies.

Bye
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