**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Mar 14 03:00:02 2018 Mar 14 04:58:23 zeekhuge: So the PRU appears as an SPI peripheral to the kernel Mar 14 04:59:19 as opposed to, say me connecting a BNO055 to the PRU pins, and that BNO055 appearing as an SPI device to the kernel Mar 14 06:28:29 I also had a question about the "BeagleBone-based Serial Terminal Server" project. I see that there have been many applications, and the project was listed as far back as 2016: Mar 14 06:28:29 https://elinux.org/BeagleBoard/GSoC/BeagleBone-based_serial_terminal_server Mar 14 06:28:29 https://elinux.org/BeagleBoard/GSoC/Serial-Terminal-Server Mar 14 06:28:29 https://elinux.org/Wiki/beaglebone_serial_terminal Mar 14 06:28:29 As far as I can tell, this should be easy to do using FIFOs/script and screen. You can even do daily logs like BB IRC, or apache/nginx logs using cron (I'll know for sure once I try it tonight). Mar 14 06:28:30 Considering the price of even a single port serial terminal server is thrice that of a BBBlack, I think this would be a good project. Does anyone know the reason for this project being rejected before? Mar 14 06:38:12 * starcruizer waves hello Mar 14 06:38:29 illustris: Well, to the kernel, only the onboard device (the on-board port that you use, for whatever external device you may use it) ever appears as the contact point, and with its original name. Connecting BNO055 to the SPI port on the board wont change its "name" for the kernel. Same is with the pruSPI. Mar 14 06:39:51 Yeah, I get that the BNO055 won't show up as an SPI device. What I meant was, is that the purpose of this project? To add a new SPI bus using a PRU? Or is it to treat the PRU as an SPI peripheral and communicate with the PRU through SPI? Mar 14 06:41:54 The project Idea says it " Previous GSoC have created an assortment of examples and foundation pieces ....... This project is to tie things together to implement at least one example of using the PRU with a standard interface" Mar 14 06:42:38 So its mostly about using the existing projects like the SPI/I2C 2016 project and make it usable. Mar 14 06:44:06 I see... Thanks Mar 14 06:44:37 Any comments on the serial terminal project? Mar 14 06:47:14 I am not sure ... Mar 14 06:47:15 I dont remember any one properly applied for that project .. Mar 14 06:47:16 But as I said, I am not sure, I might have missed it. Mar 14 07:21:32 hey, any idea on who will be the mentor for the Connected PocketBeagle idea?? Mar 14 12:54:39 jkridner: Hi, I think it'll be better to port the examples to clpru first since PASM->clpru will be trivial and then work on pru-gcc at the end. What do you think? Mar 14 14:13:14 Hi, found out that the PRU DMA project was already done last year (and it seems it's still on development, with some commits last week). Does anyone know if the plan for this year is to work on that? or it is just off the table? Mar 14 15:30:41 muneeb17 seems reasonable Mar 14 18:23:55 hgonzalez: If you are thinking for "PRU DMA", its off the table. If you have some cool, useful application for it, you can propose that .. Mar 14 19:31:29 zeekhuge thanks! **** ENDING LOGGING AT Thu Mar 15 03:00:01 2018