Guillaume Gardet wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Per Jessen <[email protected]>
>> Sent: 08 March 2019 14:57
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [opensuse-arm] /dev/vcio for accessing the raspi "mailbox" ?
>>
>> On my raspi 3b+, I'm trying out some code for controlling WS2812 LEDs
>> -
>>
>> https://github.com/jgarff/rpi_ws281x
>>
>> The code uses /dev/vcio for mailbox communications - I guess there is
>> a module that provides this interface, but I can't find it. It looks
>> like
>> bcm2835_mailbox is the right one, and it is part of the kernel.  I
>> also see in dmesg:
>>
>> [    9.267410] bcm2835-mbox 3f00b880.mailbox: mailbox enabled
>>
>> What am I missing?
> 
> I think /dev/vcio is a downstream feature only. So, not available on
> openSUSE kernel which uses upstream kernels.
> 

Thanks Guillaume

so, what do I need to do to talk to the raspi mailbox?  I tried
creating /dev/vcio myself (majornum 100), but I'm clearly missing
whatever it is that provides that interface. 



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