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| author | Brad Bishop <bradleyb@fuzziesquirrel.com> | 2017-08-29 13:23:37 -0400 |
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| committer | Brad Bishop <bradleyb@fuzziesquirrel.com> | 2017-08-31 08:47:01 -0400 |
| commit | 3eca2520e459cc17be62c20400c385d15a72bff9 (patch) | |
| tree | e3688cb30a4a17b8659057bed4f64377b25e4637 /README.iio.md | |
| parent | 116419500fba6ab97b3b9895cd771fd253231ecb (diff) | |
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Docs: Add IIO device limitation information
Add an IIO devices README to ward off the typical questions
about IIO.
Change-Id: If126daf1ddf550d9d7bf475b4d68ae2566f72c74
Signed-off-by: Brad Bishop <bradleyb@fuzziesquirrel.com>
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diff --git a/README.iio.md b/README.iio.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c1b3f7b --- /dev/null +++ b/README.iio.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Phosphor OpenBMC and IIO devices + +Phosphor OpenBMC currently does not provide an IIO device to DBUS bridge in the +same way that hwmon devices are bridged by the phosphor-hwmon-readd application. + +Until a daemon can be written, the hwmon-iio bridge driver can be used with +the phosphor-hwmon-readd application, with the limitation that only a single +iio channel can be configured per iio-hwmon platform instance. Typically +device trees are setup with all the iio-channels under a single iio-hwmon +platform device - doing this will result in undefined behavior from +phosphor-hwmon-readd. + +If a true IIO bridging daemon becomes available in the future, phosphor-hwmon-readd +will not support hwmon-iio bridge devices in any capacity. |
