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Ubuntu Core Gets Support For Raspberry Pi 2 GPIO and I2C

Posted by timothy on from the support-is-a-many-splendored-thing dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Ubuntu Core is a tiny Ubuntu distribution aimed at the Internet of Things, using a new transactional packaging format called Snappy rather than the venerable Debian packaging format. It recently gained support for I2C and GPIO on the Raspberry Pi 2, and a quick demo is given here. Ubuntu's Core support site says that the support for Raspberry Pi 2 isn't yet official, but provides some handy tips for anyone who wants to try it out.

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  1. Beware of the broken i2c by stooo · · Score: 3, Informative

    The raspberry hardware i2c implementation is broken. Don't try to communicate with microcontrollers, it will fail due to the broken clock stretching....
    I had to do SW bitbang i2c, what a mess !!

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  2. Re:A page full of marketing buzz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Snappy core is a root filesystem image built from Ubuntu deb packages and with binary diff updates. Snappy packages are built the same way, and the core runs them in apparmor to provide sandboxing.