1 Mar
2013
1 Mar
'13
8:04 a.m.
On 03/01/2013 10:39 AM, ben wrote:
Then you've not been looking. You can even do it with USB-connected
devices with free software and a few bucks' worth of hardware. The Pi
has a good bit of both built-in.
I want to bit bang the hardware!
As in, directly with I/O instructions? Any grownup operating system
on a full-blown computer will prevent userland code from doing that, and
rightfully so. If you want to bit-bang hardware, move into the embedded
systems arena.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
To e the
raspberry-pi is a great computing resource for embedded tasks.
Hard to say. Embedded tasks to me require lots of I/O and that seems to
be limited on general purpose systems. I have yet to see a PIA driver
for linux. :)