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On 16.06.21 05:30, Bjorn Andersson wrote:

> Combined with the virtio-i2c effort this could provide an alternative by
> simply tunneling the busses and GPIOs into Linux and use standard iio
> drivers, for cases where this suits your product requirements better.

So, you wanna use virtio as logical interface between the two CPUs ?
Interesting idea. Usually folks use rpmsg for those things.

What is running on the secondary CPU ? Some OS like Linux or some bare
metal stuff ? What kind of CPU is that anyways ?

--mtx

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