[Pkg-electronics-devel] is the electronics team a suitable home for lg-gpio ?

[Peter Green]

Hi

lg-gpio is a library for gpio and related functionality (SPI I2C etc) in C and python,
functionality wise it is similar to pigpio from the same author, but unlike pigpio which is very
much a raspberry pi specific package (accessing the hardware directly, using the
"userspace mailbox interface" which only exists in Debian kernels), lg-gpio is more generic

Dave Jones (upstream maintainer of gpiozero and member of the Ubuntu raspberry pi team) has
packaged lg-gpio in Ubuntu and we are considering bringing it into Debian and using it
as the default backend for the gpiozero package. This would improve the out of the box experiance
(currently the default backend is rpi.gpio which requires iomem=relaxed on the kernel command
line to work on Debian kernels) and in the longer term should allow us to support remote gpio
with both the client and server on plain Debian. It would also open up the possibility of
supporting other SBCs in

Would the electronics team be a suitable home for such a package.