[Buildroot] [PATCH] New package: gpio9260
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Wed Feb 8 09:12:15 UTC 2012
On 16:43 Mon 06 Feb , J.C. Woltz wrote:
> J> From: "J.C. Woltz" <jwoltz at gmail.com>
> J> gpio9260 is an utility used to read and set gpio states on
> J> the at91sam9260 and at91sam9g20 CPUs
>
> What's the advantage of using this compared to normal /sys/class/gpio
> sysfs access?
>
> I did not write this program. Its header states:
> /*
> * (C) Copyright 2004 Roman Avramenko <roman at imsystems.ru>
> *
> * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
> * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
> * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> *
> * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
> * GNU General Public License for more details.
> *
> * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
> * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
> * MA 02111-1307 USA
> */
>
> Calao and Synapse Wireless ship the gpio9260 to allow script and users
> easy access to (primarily) push buttons. It is used like:
> /usr/bin/gpio9260 ?PB10
> Then the return code lets you know the state of the input. Or it can be
> used to set outputs, but in that case the /sys/class/led or other makes
> sense.
>
>
> It's just a program (no headers/libraries), so why install into staging?
>
> That is my mistake. I will fix that.
For Calao platfrom this is depricated
Best Regards,
J.
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