** Changed in: ubuntu-settings (Ubuntu Impish) Status: New => Won't Fix
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-settings in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1923672 Title: [FFe] Provide access to GPIO to default user Status in ubuntu-settings package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-settings source package in Hirsute: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-settings source package in Impish: Won't Fix Status in ubuntu-settings source package in Jammy: Fix Released Bug description: At present, access to the GPIO pins is provided to the dialout group by the udev rules from the rpi.gpio-common package. However, rpi.gpio is a single GPIO library, and the device(s) it provides access to are not specific to it. Moreover, the interface used is deprecated and the /dev/gpiochip* interface is now the favoured mechanism for controlling the GPIO pins. The choice of the dialout group appears reasonable (historically it's used to provide access to the serial ports, and indeed the serial ports are part of the GPIO header on Raspberry Pi devices), but the rules should be extended to cover the modern /dev/gpiochip* devices, the related /dev/spidev* and /dev/i2c-* devices, and should be placed in a central location (i.e. ubuntu-raspi-settings) rather than in a specific GPIO library (like rpi.gpio). Related to this is LP: #1923363 which seeks to ensure equal access across images (the default user is currently granted "dialout" group membership on the pi server images, but not the desktop ones). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-settings/+bug/1923672/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp