Linux 6.2.0 GPIO issue

VIM3
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Which Khadas SBC do you use?

VIM3

Which system do you use? Android, Ubuntu, OOWOW or others?

Ubuntu 20.04

Which version of system do you use? Khadas official images, self built images, or others?

self built image Linux 6.2.0 Ubuntu 20.04 with Gnome

Please describe your issue below:

Hi everyone. I’m new with Khadas software. I need a supporting CAN bus, SPI and some GPIO on VIM3 board. So according instruction GitHub - khadas/fenix: One-stop script set to build Ubuntu/Debian images kernel was rebuilt with necessary drivers.

gpio readall fails:
err: wiringPiSetup: mmap (GPIO) failed: Bad file descriptor

How to fix this issue? How can I use GPIO? Thanks for any help.

With shared images from Khadas with Linux kernel versions 6.0.0 and 6.1.0 gpio works properly (but no CAN drivers in kernel).

Post a console log of your issue below:

uname -r
6.2.0

gpio readall
err: wiringPiSetup: mmap (GPIO) failed: Bad file descriptor
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Did you try to use the same config file and just add can support in it for 6.2 it did you use new config file?

Maybe gpio config is not enabled in your 6.2 kernel build?

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For build used config file build/linux/arch/arm64/configs/kvims_defconfig

Actually GPIO does not work without any config edits (directly from git).
Where I can find GPIO configuration in ‘make kernel-config’ ? Advise please

Linux 6.0.0 (gpio works)

ls /dev/gpiomem*
/dev/gpiomem
/dev/gpiomem-ao

Linux 6.2.0 (gpio does not work)

ls /dev/gpiomem*
No such file or directory
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Hi all. Issue solved.

Add manually to ./build/linux/drivers/char/Kconfig

config AMLOGIC_GPIOMEM
	tristate "/dev/gpiomem rootless GPIO access via mmap() on the Amlogic"
	default y
	help
	  Provides users with root-free access to the GPIO registers
	  on Meson platform. Calling mmap(/dev/gpiomem) will map the GPIO
	  register page to the user's pointer. This drvier can allow to access
	  gpio memory area in user account.

Then rebuild fenix kernel.

gpio readall works!

See this confs in patch ./packages/linux-mainline/patches/6.0/0043-add-gpiomem-driver.patch

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