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piControl

piControl is a kernel module for interfacing with RevPi hardware. It provides a common interface to all RevPi related IOs, which a user can consume via /dev/piControl0.

Usage

NOTE: Building the master branch requires a Linux kernel with support for the pibridge serdev driver (i.e. revpi-6.1). The branch revpi-5.10 does not require support for this and can be built against an earlier kernel version of the RevolutionPi kernel.

Build the module

All the following steps need to be executed on a RevPi device running the official image. It is also possible to compile the module on another system, but the instructions may vary.

Install kernel headers:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install raspberrypi-kernel-headers

Checkout repository and switch working directory:

git clone https://gitlab.com/revolutionpi/piControl.git
cd piControl/src

Compile module sources for current kernel and architecture:

KDIR=/usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/ make

Load the compiled module

Before the newly compiled module can be loaded, the currently loaded module needs to be unloaded:

sudo rmmod piControl

NOTE: If the command fails with an error such as rmmod: ERROR: Module piControl is in use, applications that are using the module need to be stopped. The command sudo lsof /dev/piControl0 will show a list of applications that are using the piControl device.

Load the newly compiled module:

sudo insmod piControl.ko

This will only load the newly compiled module once. On the next reboot, the pre-installed module in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/piControl.ko will be loaded again. If the newly compiled module should be used permanently, then it needs to be copied into the modules folder:

sudo cp piControl.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/piControl.ko