I noticed that the Raspberry Pi kernel adopted /dev/gpiomem to provide a 
way for non-root users to access GPIO:

    Add /dev/gpiomem device for rootless user GPIO access:
    https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/pull/1112

Is there anything comparable for BeagleBone?  Anyone have ideas/plans?

I started thinking about this after seeing this post on the Adafruit forum:

    Trying to use Adafruit_BBIO library and run as non-root user
    https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=89338&p=450036#p450036


thanks,
drew

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