Difference between revisions of "30C3"

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** SRD currently needs it, but has a probe mapping mechanism already, so can be adapted
** SRD currently needs it, but has a probe mapping mechanism already, so can be adapted
* Rethinking how we enumerate and assign drivers to hardware
* Rethinking how we enumerate and assign drivers to hardware
** Device tree model
** Pre-scan for all resources such as serial ports & USB devices
** How users/frontends resolve ambiguity
** How to handle "gateway" devices such as GPIB adapters, networked servers with instruments, etc.
** Device tree model?

Revision as of 14:59, 20 November 2013

We're getting together at the annual CCC conference, 30C3, for a sigrok hackathon. In addition to the usual "whatever we feel like hacking on", we also have several architectural decision to make, and doing this in person is a lot easier. If you want to be part of the conversation and decision-making process, show up!

In addition to the 4 days of the congress, we will also get together the day before (26 December 2013) for a hopefully less crowded and more productive day. Venue is not yet decided.

What's decided here is what goes.

  • New sigrok file format
  • Improved Configuration Enumeration
  • To sr_filter_probes() or not, that is the question.
    • frontends have probe location info, they pass it to sr_filter_probes() after all
    • very nice for output modules: avoids having to map probe location to bit on all the modules
    • waste of time for PV, which will soon do its own reformatting of logic data anyway
    • SRD currently needs it, but has a probe mapping mechanism already, so can be adapted
  • Rethinking how we enumerate and assign drivers to hardware
    • Pre-scan for all resources such as serial ports & USB devices
    • How users/frontends resolve ambiguity
    • How to handle "gateway" devices such as GPIB adapters, networked servers with instruments, etc.
    • Device tree model?