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These tasks are for you to get familiar with the IIO subsystem.
Experimenting with IIO subsystem
For this we will use two kernel modules found in drivers/staging/iio:
iio_dummy_evgen.ko - generates fake events interrupts to be used by the iio_dummy example driver
implementation for this module is in iio_dummy_evgen.c
iio_dummy.ko - example IIO driver to demonstrate existing functionality
core implementation can be found in iio_simple_dummy.c
buffer functionality is implemented in iio_simple_dummy_buffer.c
events functionality is implemented in iio_simple_dummy_events.c
Dummy modules compilation
You need to select the following config options:
CONFIG_IIO_DUMMY_EVGEN - for building iio_dummy_evgen kernel module
CONFIG_IIO_SIMPLE_DUMMY - for building iio_dummy kernel module
CONFIG_IIO_SIMPLE_DUMMY_EVENTS, CONFIG_IIO_SIMPLE_DUMMY_BUFFER should be selected for events and buffer functionality.
Use the following commands for modules compilation:
$ make drivers/staging/iio/iio_dummy_evgen.ko
$ make drivers/staging/iio/iio_dummy.ko
Use the following commands for module loading:
$ insmod iio_dummy_evgen.ko
$ insmod iio_dummy.ko
Task 01:
- Show that the modules were successfully loaded.
- lsmod
- ls -l /sys/bus/iio/devices/
- ls -l /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/
- ls -l /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio_evgen/
IIO event monitor
IIO event monitor is an user space example application which reads events from IIO layer and pretty prints the results. Implementation can be found in iio_event_monitor.c under tools/iio/. BR
Task 02:
compile iio_event_monitor.c to obtain an executable called iio_event_monitor.