Re: Arduino support?

Hubert Figuiere <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.gphoto.devel
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On 2022-02-15 5:17 p.m., Dave Taylor wrote:
> Last post I saw about Ardunio support was in 2009, where Marcus said:
> 
> "We have various embedded users already, so it's possible."

That mean Raspberry Pi or similar, usually with Linux, access to .5GB of 
RAM, USB and a filesystem.

> We're now in this gruesome chip shortage which is making little Linux
> SOC's like the Raspberry Pi very hard to find, but Arduinos are still
> in good supply.  Is there official support for Arduinos yet?

No

> If not, how much effort do we think it might take to port?

you'll need:

- A modern C toolchain
- A certain about of RAM
- A proper libusb implementation OR rewrite the USB layer to the 
platform implementation

I'd rate that hard, downright impossible if you hit the hardware limitation.

Hub
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