Request for snap interface that expose user-space device APIs

Lorn Potter lorn.potter at canonical.com
Tue Nov 15 06:31:55 UTC 2016



On 15/11/16 08:50, Jian LUO wrote:
> Hi snapcrafters,
> 
> Embedded systems (which are likely called IoT devices these days :)
> sometime need access to peripherals via user-space device APIs, namely
> i2cdev[1], spidev[2] and uio[3]. Snaps of type core and gadget should be
> able to expose these interfaces to other privileged snaps.
> 
> I've opened a bug report for the feature request:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1641752
> 
> Does it make sense?

Yes.
Comment on that bug.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jian
> 
> 

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