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Table of Contents
Linux Drivers
Building the ADI Linux kernel
Common elements for all kernel builds:
- make sure you have
makeinstalled on your system, but we generally recommend installing the build-essentials tools for your Linux distribution - some builds will require you to have
u-boot-toolsinstalled, to have themkimageutilities available, so it's good to have them available/installed
If you would like a pre-compiled kernel with complete user space, check out ADI's Kuiper Linux Distribution
Target specific details:
The rapid increase in use of free and open-source software (FOSS), in particular Linux, represents the most significant, all-encompassing, and long-term trend that the embedded industry has seen since the early 1980s.1) Like many, Analog Devices creates and maintains Linux Drivers for various Analog Devices products.
Life Cycle
Analog Devices uses six designations to inform our customers where a semiconductor product is in its life cycle. From emerging innovations to products which have been in production for twenty years, we understand that insight into life cycle status is important. Device life cycles are tracked on their individual product pages on analog.com, and should always be consulted before making any design decisions. Drivers for obsolete devices are still tracked/maintained/supported on a best effort basis, since we understand the life cycle of end products that ADI's devices are designed into can be longer than the life cycle of the semiconductor product itself.
Maintenance and Support
These drivers are a combinations of written and maintained by Analog Devices developers, and by many other open source volunteers (most times end-users of various devices). All these drivers (and their corresponding device trees), independent of origin, are supported by ADI Linux kernel Engineers, on-line at linux-software-drivers. This is a combination of drivers that are maintained at Analog Devices github and the mainline mainline kernel at https://kernel.org/.
It is a common practice during driver development to support a subset of what the hardware/chip is capable of. If you find a driver does not expose a feature you require in your design, please make a request in our support forums.
Requests
If you find a ADI device that you would like a driver for, please ask on our support forums. While we would like support every request, and do try to support most; this does go through a quick internal process before development starts. Our metrics to create device driver additions are pretty simple, it depends on development efforts (adding a part into an existing subsystem is easier than developing a completely new subsystem, or extending something), and popularity of the device (we are much more likely to do something that is recently released, than something 25 years old). If you have a local ADI contact (like a Sales Engineer or FAE) it's always a great idea to contact them at the same time so we can better understand your application and schedule. If you are an ADI employee who wants to make a request, click on Submit Reference Design Idea (under Tools and Services) on the main intranet page.
Driver List
Devices are organized by Linux subsystem.
Backlight
Battery Charger
Battery Gas Gauge
Battery Manager
CLOCK
Card Bus
GPIO
Secondary function
HWMon & PMBus
HWMon
PMbus
Ethernet PHY
Ethernet MAC-PHY
I2C Mux
IIO - Accelerometers
IIO - Amplifiers
IIO - Analog to Digital Converters
IIO - Beamformers
IIO - Capacitance to Digital Converters
IIO - Combined Analog to Digital and Digital to Analog converters
IIO - Digital to Analog Converters
IIO - Direct Digital Synthesis
IIO - Filters
IIO - Frequency Synthesizers / Phase-Locked Loop
IIO - Gyroscopes
IIO - Heart-Rate
IIO - Impedance Converters and Network Analyzers
IIO - Inertial Measurement Units
IIO - Light
IIO - Mixed Signal Front Ends (MxFE)
IIO - Potentiometers
IIO - Resolvers
IIO - Receivers
IIO - Transceivers
IIO - Temperature
IIO - Vector Power Measurement
Input - Keyboard
Input - Misc
Input - Touchscreens
LED
Miscellaneous
Multifunction Device
Multiplexers
Networking - MAC802154
Real Time Clocks
Regulators
Power-Off
Serial
Sound
Transceiver
USB
Video
1-Wire Controller
1-Wire Peripheral
1)
IDC study/survey from over 5000 developers in 116 countries. Open Source in Global Software: Market Impact, Disruption, and Business Models. 2006.
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