From:  Tony DiCola <[email protected]>
Reply-To:  <[email protected]>
Date:  Wednesday, June 4, 2014 at 8:29 AM
To:  <[email protected]>
Subject:  Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Black libraries for GPIO access in
C/C++?

> Thanks for the replies everyone--looks like some nice libraries to check out.
> 
> Regarding memory mapped GPIO, check out this nice blog post for more info:
> http://vabi-robotics.blogspot.com/2013/10/register-access-to-gpios-of-beaglebo
> ne.html  You can effectively map the GPIO registers to a process' memory space
> and directly access them so there's no overhead of making the system calls to
> read, write, etc. the sysfs-based GPIO.
> 
> I actually just tried out a couple quick tests and saw toggling a pin high and
> low in a tight loop with sysfs is pretty slow, only a few hunded khz.  However
> using memory mapped GPIO registers it's much, much faster.  I'm seeing around
> 2.8 mhz toggling a pin with this approach.  Now neither approach is
> technically going to ever give you a real time guarantee of course, but it's
> nice to have the ability to read and write GPIO fairly quickly in some cases
> with memory mapped GPIO.
The downside is you cannot support GPIO interrupts.

Regards,
John
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Micka <[email protected]> wrote:
>> William Hermans, how did you controlled the GPIO ?
>> 
>> The only way that I know is with :
>>> 
>>> /sys/class/gpio/gpio%d/value
>> 
>> but you talk about mmap ? How did you use it with this
>> /sys/class/gpio/gpio%d/value ?
>> 
>> Thx you,
>> 
>> Micka,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:57 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> sysfs, and mmap. I've seen mention of both on the web ( including for the BB
>>> white ).
>>> 
>>>> wiringPi
>>> 
>>> Whats this ? The Arduino IDE for the rPI ? Nothing like this exists for the
>>> BBB that I am aware of.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Jacek Radzikowski
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> <shameless plug>
>>>> https://github.com/piranha32/IOoo
>>>> </shameless plug>
>>>> 
>>>> j.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Tony DiCola <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> > Sorry if this is a common question, but I've searched around the web and
>>>>> the
>>>>> > forum here and am curious are there any somewhat mature or popular
>>>>> libraries
>>>>> > for simple digital GPIO access on the Beaglebone Black in C/C++?  I'm
>>>>> > curious if there's anything like wiringPi or similar for the BBB yet.
>>>>> If
>>>>> > not, are folks just rolling their own thing with access to sysfs or
>>>>> mmap?
>>>>> >
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