[MinnowBoard] MinnowBoard MAX getting started with GPIO

[John Hawley]

https://github.com/MinnowBoard/minnow-max-extras/tree/master/calamari

also has some basic examples of how to deal with GPIOs

and

http://www.elinux.org/Minnowboard:MinnowMax#Low_Speed_Expansion_.28Top.29

has the pinout, including the GPIO numbers

- John

On 11/7/2014 7:51 PM, Peter Ogden wrote:
> I asked this exact question on IRC last week.
> 
> What I was told is you need to do is compile the kernel with the GPIO
> SYSFS enabled.
> 
> I'm still very new to this myself, so I haven't been able to try this
> yet.  Hopefully that gives you a hit on what to search for.  I was
> googling "compile linux kernel with gpio driver enabled".
> 
> -Peter
> 
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Martin Oldfield <m at mjoldfield.com
> <mailto:m at mjoldfield.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     I've got a MinnowBoard MAX happily running Mint, and now I'd like to
>     hookup some devices to it.
> 
>     Ideally I'd like to be able to waggle some  GPIO lines, and do SPI, but
>     I'm somewhat at a loss where to start, so I thought I'd ask here.
> 
>     Please, does any know if there are documents akin to these but for the
>     MinnowBoard MAX anywhere:
>       http://www.minnowboard.org/getting-started/
> 
>     Mint gives me this kernel:
>       Linux version 3.13.0-24-generic (buildd at batsu) (gcc version 4.8.2
>     (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) ) #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:30:00 UTC 2014
> 
>     Do I need something newer to get GPIO & SPI support for Baytrail ?
> 
>     Thanks in advance of any help.
> 
>     Cheers,
>     --
>     M.
> 
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