It was nice knowing Raspberry Pi while they lasted. Going to suck losing something that has changed the homegrown embedded system hobby forever.
It was nice knowing Raspberry Pi while they lasted. Going to suck losing something that has changed the homegrown embedded system hobby forever.
These should all work without kernel drivers. For example, here’s a user space python library for ADS1*15 ADCs, or Nuvoton MS51 IO Expanders. Unless you need very specific timing or require the kernel to know about it, you shouldn’t need a kernel driver.
You can of course write drivers for them, but then it’s you own abstraction not the standard Linux abstraction. (You can hack something up with IIO for that stuff, but it’s not pretty). There is CUSE (part of FUSE) you can do some character devices with.
Existing drivers in Python are messy to use if you our not developer in Python.
The nice thing about in kernel is:
The Linux kernel does hardware abstraction. It’s not a microkernel. There is limited support for proper userspace drivers.
If you doing some application specific app, that will only work with those chips, use do it in userspace. But to make a normal system for normal use, you want things in kernel like normal.