When initialized, the driver starts a thread that generates signal data.
This data is written to a pipe (write file descriptor).
The other end of the pipe (read file descriptor), is connected to the
main polling code, like any other driver.
Note: This patch adds a new dependency on libgthread.
At the moment, you can list the driver's device:
$ ./cli/sigrok-cli -D
The following devices were found:
ID Device
0 Sigrok project Demo Driver v1.0 with 8 probes
And use it for random signal generation:
$ /opt/sigrok/bin/sigrok-cli -d 0 --samples 50 -f bits -p 1-8
sigrok 0.1pre2
Acquisition with 8/8 probes at 0 Hz
1:10111100 11010110 00001011 00011110 00111010 11110100 10
2:11010110 00111111 01001010 11111101 11010011 00010010 11
3:11000101 01000001 10100011 10100100 10110000 11110011 00
4:00100111 11110100 10011101 01100111 00100101 01001110 10
5:00011100 00101100 10111000 11001101 01011101 01011011 01
6:10110101 10111110 10010110 10111000 11011010 10000100 11
7:11111111 01001111 11110110 11010010 10000101 01001111 00
8:01000101 01111110 01010111 00000111 00010010 00000101 11
The next step is to make demo driver customisable (per-probe signal clock,
reference sample signals : serial, I2C, CAN...).
Thanks Olivier Fauchon <olivier@aixmarseille.com> for the patch.
Use libtool "noinst" local helper libs and use one Makefile.am per
subdir, which is the usual/preferred method. These helper libraries are
purely local and will not be installed.
This also fixes out-of-tree builds of sigrok, i.e. building in a
directory other than the sigrok source directory, e.g.
$ cd /home/user
$ git clone ...sigrok
$ cd sigrok
$ ./autogen.sh
$ mkdir /tmp/foo
$ cd /tmp/foo
$ /home/user/sigrok/configure
$ make
$ make install
This will place all build results (.o files, .la files, etc) in the
local build directory (/tmp/foo) instead of the source directory
(/home/user/sigrok in this example). The installation directory is
selected via the --prefix configure option (/usr/local per default).
This fixes a bug where no LA would be found or displayed in lists such
as 'sigrok-cli -H' or 'sigrok-cli -D'.
Thanks Forrest Voight for spotting the bug.
Daniel Ribeiro
Bert Vermeulen
Uwe Hermann