[Arm-dev] libgpiod on Centos 7/8

Wed Jun 10 16:55:25 UTC 2020
R C <cjvijf at gmail.com>

Hello Pablo,


The 'official' location for libgpiod is 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libgpiod/libgpiod.git/


I don't know where the patch itself is, if there is one. The difference 
I ran into is that the flag sargument in:

gpiod_line_request_both_edges_events_flags function now can use things 
like GPIOD_LINE_REQUEST_FLAG_BIAS_PULL_UP

(3 flags were added).


Ron




On 6/10/20 5:50 AM, Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote:
>
> On 9/6/20 20:30, R C wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I figured out that in order to use  the pull up/down resistors on an 
>> RPI, using libgpiod one would need
>>
>> to have a kernel version 5.5.0 or greater.
> Do you have a reference to the patch that implements this? if it is 
> small enough it could be backported
>>
>> I belive currently we are at 5.42,  with 7.8.2003 ?  Is there gong to 
>> be a 5.5.x kernel in a later version of Centos 7.x or
>>
>> is that going to be a Centos 8 'thing'?
> The current plan for both 7 and 8 is to use the latest LTS kernel, 
> that's why 7.8 was upgraded from 4.19 to 5.4, and the same thing will 
> happen with 8.2.
> If the all goes the same way that it was the previous years, 2020's 
> LTS kernel should be 5.9 (normally it is the last kernel of the year), 
> so we should start using that kernel a few months after that. In the 
> meantime, we'll stay with 5.4
>>
>>
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
> Pablo.