Re: Raspberry Pi as an inexpensive embedded LCDproc server

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Markus Dolze <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sunday 19 August 2012, Markus Dolze wrote:
> I haven't done any research yet - is there a GPIO framework for Linux
> one can use instead of rolling our own?

On Adafruit's tutorial...

http://learn.adafruit.com/drive-a-16x2-lcd-directly-with-a-raspberry-pi

... they recommend the package rpi.gpio.  I am not aware of a generic
GPIO scheme for desktop Linux distros since I don't think there's a
feasible way to do GPIO on the platform (except for parallel-port
banging on those machines that still have parallel ports).

> Before adding support for I2C you should really consider using
> hd44780-i2c instead, as Jannis pointed out that it already can drive
> displays on the Pi. I'd like to avoid rolling our own I2C thing if one
> already  works.

Second that.

-ethan