Digital Compass

Welcome to the Digital Compass  webpage.

Introduction
This webpage describes the Digital Compass software development effort, mainly its current status and features planned in the road map.

At present, Digital Compass is supported only on OMAP4 platforms which uses the HMC5843 sensor. It is designed for low field magnetic sensing with a digital interface.

List of Features Supported

 * On OMAP4
 * Magnetometric reporting through input subsystem.
 * Configuration: Allows read and update of configuration parameters via sysfs

Design
The sensor interacts with the OMAP using the I2C bus. It reports the sensor values through the input subsystem.

The driver registers itself using the standard input device.

Feature Status Summary
Here is the summary of completed, ongoing and planned features in the Digital Compass driver.

 Accelerometer Driver

Defect Status Summary
Here is the summary of completed, ongoing and planned defect fixes in the Digital Compass driver.

 Digital Compass Driver

FAQ
TBD

HMC01 Support for Digital Compass
ongoing development

Defect Status Details
None reported so far

Future Development Plan
None at present

Information on Testing
TBD

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Owner
Shubhrajyoti D 

Contributors
Steven King  Shubhrajyoti D 

Patches Merged in kernel.org
None

Recent Submissions to Open Source
None

Current Status of Patches in Omapzoom Tree
None

Upstreaming Sensors - Points for discussion
There is resistance from the input subsystem maintainers also alternate subsystem is thought of. However Linus has some objections for having a new subsystem. There is a possibility that it be merged in the input tree.