[ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Userspace accelerometer viewer)

Pavel Machek linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:13:30 +0200


Hi!

> > PLEASE read the following article, it has the data of a guy that made a 
> > driver in IBM for Linux and he described the driver he made.
> > http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/marksmith/tpaps.html
> 
> Yesterday evening, I used my time here at Debconf5 constructively!  ;-)
> 
>   http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/aps/accelerometer-viewer.jpg    (43kB)
>   http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/aps/accelerometer-lid-shut.jpg  (27kB)
> 
> The sensor gives us two 10-bit AD values (corresponding to 0..1 volts on the
> ADI chip), temperature (Celsius) and three status bits indicating:
> 
>   * lid open/closed
>   * keyboard activity
>   * nipple movement

Oh, very nice pictures indeed...  What is the current interface
between userspace and kernel parts?
								Pavel
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