The GPIO bit-bang driver creates an interface to Linux GPIOs using the IOCTL API.

Basic 1-bit input and output is available along with accelerated multiple bit shift I/O.

GPIO bit-bang is well suited to PICMicro ICSP but not exclusively.

This module is built out of kernel and depends on the header files and tools found locally or may be cross compiled.

For cross compilation, and example Makefile named cross-compile.mk is provided.

If the linux source directory was cross compiled and then copied to the target system to build the module, then a script is also provided to rebuild the kernel header scripts locally, which would otherwise be binary files for a foreign architecture.

First install development tools and the kernel headers when using a regular kernel.

apt-get install raspberrypi-kernel-headers

If you updated the kernel with rpi-update, install rpi-source

Now install headers for kernel installed with rpi-update.

rpi-source --skip-space

Now install the kernel module.

hg clone http://hg.kewl.org/pub/gpio-bb
cd gpio-bb
make
make install

Update the modprobe configuration to create the gpio-bb device node when the module is loaded. For example, add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf

install gpio-bb modprobe --ignore-install gpio-bb && modprobe gpio-bb && mknod /dev/gpio-bb c 180 0 && chmod 666 /dev/gpio-bb

Lastly, add the following to /etc/modules and reboot.

gpio-bb

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gpio-bb uses the kernel API to access pins, this API demands exclusive access to a pin per process. This means you cannot use gpio-bb and sysfs export simultaneously for a single pin.

Using gpio-bb