On Fri, 29 May 2026 21:09:59 +0900
Jinseob Kim <kimjinseob88@gmail.com> wrote:
> This RFC series adds an Industrial I/O driver for Open Sensor Fusion
> OSF0 UART devices.
This misses a clear statement of why it is an RFC. Are their open questions?
Is the protocol still evolving? Are you waiting for testing?
>
> Open Sensor Fusion is an open hardware project for sensor aggregation
> devices and Linux IIO host support. OSF0 is not a general standard; it is
> the current wire format used by this project and by the RFC driver in this
> series. The first concrete hardware target is OSF GREEN, an STM32F405-based
> sensor aggregation board that streams sensor samples to a Linux host.
>
> Project links:
> https://www.opensensorfusion.org/
> https://github.com/opensensorfusion
> https://github.com/opensensorfusion/opensensorfusion-linux
>
> The driver receives OSF0 frames over a serdev UART, validates the stream,
> decodes capability and sample frames, and registers IIO devices for the
> supported sensor types. The current RFC driver covers the device-to-host
> path used for accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, and temperature
> samples.
>
> Changes since v2:
>
> * Reworked the binding around the concrete OSF GREEN hardware target.
> * Changed the compatible from opensensorfusion,osf-uart to
> opensensorfusion,osf-green.
> * Renamed the binding file to opensensorfusion,osf-green.yaml.
> * Updated the example node name to generic sensor.
> * Added serial-peripheral-props.yaml and unevaluatedProperties: false.
> * Added public project links and clarified that OSF0 is not a general
> standard.
> * Separated the OSF0 wire format from the subset currently supported by
> this RFC driver.
> * Clarified SENSOR_SAMPLE as a 16-byte payload header followed by
> 4 * channel_count bytes of s32 channel data.
> * Clarified device-side timestamp limitations.
> * Spelled out Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS).
> * Added sensor_type, sample_format, channel_count, reserved-field, and
> payload length overflow validation.
> * Changed reserved fields to validate-only handling.
> * Fixed IIO_BUFFER / IIO_KFIFO_BUF dependency handling.
> * Added channel_count checks before pushing samples to IIO buffers.
> * Added locking for cached latest samples.
> * Removed explicit linux-iio and devicetree list entries from
> MAINTAINERS.
> * Folded MAINTAINERS updates into the patches that add the corresponding
> files.
> * Addressed Sashiko feedback from v2.
>
> The runtime smoke test used for the previous revision was performed with an
> OSF GREEN prototype connected to a Raspberry Pi 4 over UART/serdev. This v3
> series was also checked with dt_binding_check, checkpatch, and a W=1 target
> build in the local full-tree environment.
>
>
> Jinseob Kim (6):
> dt-bindings: iio: add OSF GREEN sensor aggregation device
> Documentation: iio: add Open Sensor Fusion protocol v0 reference
> iio: osf: add protocol v0 decoding
> iio: osf: add stream parser
> iio: osf: add UART serdev transport
> iio: osf: register IIO devices from capabilities
>
> .../iio/imu/opensensorfusion,osf-green.yaml | 43 +++
> .../devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml | 2 +
> .../iio/open-sensor-fusion-protocol-v0.rst | 308 ++++++++++++++++++
> MAINTAINERS | 13 +
> drivers/iio/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/iio/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/Kconfig | 14 +
> drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/Makefile | 6 +
> drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_core.c | 305 +++++++++++++++++
> drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_core.h | 70 ++++
> drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_iio.c | 285 ++++++++++++++++
> drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_iio.h | 22 ++
> drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_protocol.c | 247 ++++++++++++++
> drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_protocol.h | 95 ++++++
> drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_serdev.c | 111 +++++++
> drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_stream.c | 207 ++++++++++++
> drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_stream.h | 31 ++
> 17 files changed, 1761 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/imu/opensensorfusion,osf-green.yaml
> create mode 100644 Documentation/iio/open-sensor-fusion-protocol-v0.rst
> create mode 100644 drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_core.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_core.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_iio.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_iio.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_protocol.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_protocol.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_serdev.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_stream.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/iio/opensensorfusion/osf_stream.h
>