From:  William Hermans <[email protected]>
Reply-To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date:  Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 4:07 PM
To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject:  Re: [beagleboard] Re: Memory Mapped Access to /dev/mem GPIO2
fails, GPIO1 OK

> Except that running those commands as root at startup( init scripts ) has no
> detrimental effect.
He is running the script as root and in that script, he is launching his
application, so his application is running as root.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:37 PM, John Syn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> From:  Andrew Henderson <[email protected]>
>> Reply-To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Date:  Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 11:40 AM
>> To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Subject:  [beagleboard] Re: Memory Mapped Access to /dev/mem GPIO2 fails,
>> GPIO1 OK
>> 
>>> I have found that accessing GPIOs via mmap() of /dev/mem works without
>>> accessing additional control register settings if you export one GPIO pin in
>>> each bank so that the GPIO kernel driver "unlocks" each bank and wakes it
>>> up.  GPIO1 is awake by default, but you can get the other GPIO0, GPIO2, and
>>> GPIO3 working via the following commands:
>>> 
>>> echo 5 > /sys/class/gpio/export
>>> echo 65 > /sys/class/gpio/export
>>> echo 105 > /sys/class/gpio/export
>>> 
>>> I do the same with Android in the init.{ro.hardware}.rc file:
>>> 
>>> write /sys/class/gpio/export 5
>>> write /sys/class/gpio/export 65
>>> write /sys/class/gpio/export 105
>>> 
>>> As for running those commands under Linux, I usually place the commands to
>>> export the pins into a shell script that also launches the application that
>>> uses the GPIOs.  Since you have to be root to mmap() the pages with GPIO
>>> control registers, you can run the shell script via sudo and have the script
>>> export the pins and then launch your binary.  You could also place the
>>> commands in the /etc/rc.local startup script or the like, if you want.
>> Running applications as root is a very bad idea. if you change the group for
>> /dev/mem and add your userid to that group, you don¹t have to run your app as
>> root.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John
>>> 
>>> Andrew
>>> 
>>> On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 1:49:16 PM UTC-4, Nic Cyn wrote:
>>>> Success!!! Thank you very much! - this works. I really appreciate your
>>>> advice. I absolutely would not have got this sorted without it.
>>>> 
>>>> I am going to write up a summary and post it on this thread so that anybody
>>>> else that runs into this issue can find it. However I do have a couple more
>>>> questions - if you (or anybody) have the time to provide any insights you
>>>> might have.
>>>> 
>>>> * The CM_PER_GPIO1_CLKCTRL at 0x44e00000[0xac] for Bank GPIO1 is already
>>>> set, yet the equivalents for GPIO2 and GPIO3 are not. Any idea how
>>>> CM_PER_GPIO1_CLKCTRL got set?
>>>> * Are there any Device Tree settings that you know of that can set the
>>>> CLKCTRLs for GPIO2 and GPIO3 at boot up?
>>>> * There is no CM_PER_GPIO0_CLKCTRL for the GPIO0 bank. I gather GPIO0 is
>>>> something of a special case due to the wakeup capabilities it contains. Is
>>>> the GPIO0 bank always enabled? Any thoughts on why GPIO0 is not there?
>>>> * Your example OR'ed with 0x40002 - presumably to place it in standby -
>>>> rather than fully active. I am curious - under what circumstances would you
>>>> want to put a CLKCTRL in standby mode?
>>>> * Do you have any idea why /dev/mem would fail to access GPIO3 if the
>>>> CLKCTRL was not set and yet SYSFS can read the GPIO states on GPIO3?
>>>> Obviously SYSFS is a device driver and does not need to hit /dev/mem but
>>>> even so it appears the CLKCTRL is used to transfer the state off the
>>>> physical pin and into the GPIO bank so why would SYSFS work if the clock is
>>>> disabled. 
>>>> * You must have run into this issue yourself. How on earth did you figure
>>>> out that it was the CLKCTRL registers? The reason I ask I I would like to
>>>> know how to diagnose this sort of thing myself and it all seems such a
>>>> mystery at the moment.
>>>> 
>>>> Once again.... many thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Tuesday, 28 October 2014 21:28:19 UTC, [email protected]  wrote:
>>>>> This is out of a program I use -
>>>>> Enter code here...
>>>>> uint32_t *clock_gpio3;
>>>>> clock_gpio3 = (uint32_t *) mmap(NULL, 0x1000, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
>>>>> MAP_SHARED, fd, 0x44E00000);
>>>>> clock_gpio3[0x2d] |= 0x40002; // 2d is b4 divide by 4 because it is a byte
>>>>> offset
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>    
>>>>> 
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