[svlug] embedded linux (arm) any pointer?

Michael Eager eager at eagercon.com
Sat Jul 25 12:48:17 PDT 2015


On 07/25/2015 12:30 PM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
>> As Sarah said "Is there a reason not to use HDMI?"  Common interfaces
>> >are LVDS, HDMI, VGA.  If you are connecting to a small low-res display
>> >with a few lines of text, you might find that it requires SPI or I2C.

> SPI for graphics display? Unless they come with their own ogic and
> "programming" language I haven't seen any even for VGA resolution.

Please read more carefully:  Low-res display with text is not VGA.

 > I need to control a touch displaywith some high level library (qt, gtk),
 > write files on a USB flash, some pwm, some adc, i2c, some gpio and
 > potentially in the future have a network connection.

Again, BeagleBone or Raspberry Pi, possibly with an Arduino for
the ADC should do this.  Or CuBox from SolidRun.  There are perhaps
a few dozen more boards available.

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