Can an overlay be created for the INA260 (current & voltage sensor)

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c, linux, raspberry-pi
Domain
embedded-iot

Research direction

Use the INA260 product page and Adafruit's Arduino library as behavioral references, then inspect Raspberry Pi Linux support for sensor overlays. Done means an INA260 overlay can be created and used with the Raspberry Pi 4.

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Description

Describe the bug

Not a bug, but a request to add support for the INA260.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

N/A

Device (s)

Raspberry Pi 4 Mod. B

System

N/A

Logs

N/A

Additional context

Adafruit has an Arduino library for this device, but that doesn't help on the RPi.

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