[Embedlets-dev] Off Topic: ID'ing peripherals

[Brill P. <bri...@ro...>]

I'd like to include a way to ID peripherals... not something strictly
required at this point beyond the instance for identification, but I have
dreams (possibly pipe) of being able to link multiple processors that all
see the same set of peripherals, regardless of what processor they are on...
and use any transport to talk back and forth.

Anyway, I'd like to put the skeleton into the library now, and wanted ideas
on how systems could be identified.

Really its based on context because not all processors have Ethernet ports
(or I'd just use the IP). I can be done at the local level with a name
something like "proc://spi0" or "proc://i2c1" or "proc://com2" etc...
however that doesn't work so well when there are multiple processors...

It may be (read is) possible to auto-negotiate the ID of the processor
itself when it links with another processor, and that's the best solution
I've come up with so far... I wanted to pass it by you folks though for
ideas.

- Brill Pappin
  Rogue Robotics
  www.roguerobotics.com