Re: Linux support for a 7 segment LED display

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> I'm looking for something that I figured must exists but maybe it's so 
> niche that no-one has bothered to upstream a driver for it.
> 
> I have a requirement to support a 7-segment LED display[1] (one that can 
> display a single digit from 0-9). Hardware wise it's just a bunch of 
> individual GPIOs connected to each segment (plus an extra one for a 
> dot). I can't see anything obvious in drivers/leds but maybe I'm looking 
> in the wrong place. Or maybe it's the kind of thing on PC hardware that 
> is just driven by the BIOS without the operating system knowing about it.

Look at drivers/auxdisplay. I believe we have segment displays there.

Best regards,
								Pavel
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