Drivers collection

[mobyfab]

Hey,

I'm starting a driver collection as there are some really usefull ones that are not in Chibi yet.
The idea is to have an easy way to use external drivers.

https://github.com/fpoussin/ChibiOS-Drivers

If you find any other drivers you'd like to integrate, post it here.

[Tectu]

Hi mobyfab,

Would you like to put that repository under the ChibiOS github account? I think that would make sense.
Also, I'd suggest to keep a list of available and implemented drivers as part of the readme.


~ Tectu

[mobyfab]

Sure this is something I can do, I just need access

[Tectu]

You should have full access to the repository: https://github.com/ChibiOS/ChibiOS-Drivers


~ Tectu

[mobyfab]

I have pushed to code to the repo.

Thanks!

[Giovanni]

Good work, for me it is hard to add code without an active maintainer.

Giovanni

[mobyfab]

We'll try to keep the driver models as close to the original HAL API as possible.

I hope many people will contribute, it can become really useful in the future.

[saraben]

mobyfab,
Thinking ahead a bit.
Can I suggest separating contributions into those useable with ChibiOS V2 (hal) and V3 (hal_osal).
If files are mixed in the same directories it will lead to confusion.

Regards
saraben

[Giovanni]

Good idea, V3 could simplify this work too, the organization is better and platforms can be added as link from the main repository, see for example the SPC5xx directories, the support for those devices is handled outside ChibiOS.

V3 will allow to:
1) Use the drivers with any OS or without OS as long an OSAL adapter is implementable.
2) HAL platform can be handled as independent projects, see SPC5xx. The platform maintainers have to provide a directory with drivers, one for test applications and one for demos.

Giovanni

[mobyfab]

This is already planned.

I will make another branch for 3.0.

Right now it's only for 2.6.