worlickwerx / pi-parport

retro parallel port for raspberry pi
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add a Qwiic connector #64

Open garlick opened 2 months ago

garlick commented 2 months ago

I'm not sure if we have already used all the I2C GPIOs but if not, it could be useful in some applications have have a Qwiic connector available for expansion.

quorten commented 2 months ago

I looked at the board and it should be fairly straightforward to free up the I2C GPIOs. Some other useful pins we already have free, a few others should probably be freed up. Here are my notes:

garlick commented 2 months ago

Nice analysis, thanks!

I suppose we can distribute two DT overlays, one for the older boards and one for the newer and select them with the EEPROM.