On 1/12/2014 3:57 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> On 1/12/2014 2:44 PM, Thomas Studwell wrote:
>> Charles, I didn't see any reference to 'high' being a valid 'direction'
>> using the virtual GPIO pins, so I added these to the end of the setup.sh
>> file.  If I get time later today or tomorrow, I'll update the script to
>> process an optional 'level' parameter to the pin list rather than
>> hardcoding it like this.
>>
>> Included text:
>> sudo -A su -c "echo 1>  /sys/class/gpio/gpio44/value"
>> sudo -A su -c "echo 1>  /sys/class/gpio/gpio46/value"
>> sudo -A su -c "echo 1>  /sys/class/gpio/gpio48/value"
> Making me provide references, eh?  Well, OK:
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/gpio/gpio-legacy.txt
>
> ...scroll down to "Paths in Sysfs" where you will find:
>
>      /sys/class/gpio/gpioN/
>
>       "direction" ... reads as either "in" or "out".  This value may
>               normally be written.  Writing as "out" defaults to
>               initializing the value as low.  To ensure glitch free
>               operation, values "low" and "high" may be written to
>               configure the GPIO as an output with that initial value.
>
>               Note that this attribute *will not exist* if the kernel
>               doesn't support changing the direction of a GPIO, or
>               it was exported by kernel code that didn't explicitly
>               allow userspace to reconfigure this GPIO's direction.
>
My bad.  Thank you for the reference AND the gentle reminder that the 
GPIO world doesn't revolve around BBB documentation :-)

Tom

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