Exposing The PRU as an I2C,SPI,UART device

Bitbanging an SPI or/an I2C device in Linux leads to a lot of problems.It consumes a lot of valuable CPU cycles.And since Linux is an non-preemptive OS(And not an RTOS),once we start bitbanging,other important tasks that require CPU time would suffer.Thus,there are a lot of software overheads in doing the same. To avoid this on the BBB,we could offload the task of bitbanging I2C,SPI,UART, to the PRU.The PRU is a separate core and,hence,not affected by the Linux Scheduler. Hence the motivation for exposing the PRU as an I2C,SPI,UART device comes from the fact that they would be no software overheads in doing it and hence,we would gain extra serial interfaces without wasting valuable CPU cycles in bitabanging.

This project involves writing Device Tree Overlays,Device Drivers and PRU firmware code for Bitbanging I2C,SPI and UART.