python: spidev

[tj]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 03:02:29PM -0500, Peter Garshtja wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
>      Has anybody experience with python spidev library on RPI2 FreeBSD 11 ?
> 
> I have a led matrix max7219 trying to connect it with gpio, and 
> apparently python spidev library is only for linux, i just wonder if 
> there any chances to run this library on freebsd ?
> 
> here is the tutorial that i tried to follow in order to make this led 
> matrix working on rpi2 under freebsd.
> 
> https://github.com/rm-hull/max7219

There have been a few implementations of a userspace interface to spi,
spigen ended up winning and was committed by adrian.

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2016-May/087329.html

The interface is different to the linux implementation, but it shouldn't
be too hard to write the bits to use it from python.

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- [tj]