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Why is it so hard to build Raspberry Pi Linux drivers?

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A few days ago I complained a bit about the profusion and confusion around the Linux drivers for the PiBorg LEDBorg multi-colour LED. With a bit of renewed energy, I thought I’d have a go at improving the situation by including a test for board revisionin the driver and ensuring that the correct GPIO pins …

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Unit testing bare-metal Raspberry Pi code

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A few days ago I took a few small steps toward creating a project structure and build process which would allow me to build and test the majority of my bare-metal Raspberry Pi code on my development (Windows or Linux) machine, with only the very hardware-specific bits needing to be built and tested on the …

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