Hi Ben,

I've been asked in a GitHub issue[1] if there is any work in progress (or if someone wants to take a look) for getting the GPIO libraries for Raspberry Pi working on Fedora. Someone subsequently posted a link to a BZ[2] where Peter said "the RPIO._GPIO module needs to be updated to work with the new kernel interfaces". Is that still the case?

It is correct. They need to be ported to use libgpiod and associated bindings so they use the modern and secure interface, not the old deprecated interfaces.

There was discussion about forking them or implementing the same interface in a different library but I don't see the point in that because it means all the millions of instructions on the internet won't work. What needs to be doing is to engage with the maintainer of RPi.GPIO to get the support landed there so it uses libgpiod by default and if that's not available falls back to the old way, that way it will work with new systems buy fall back and all the instructions for cool projects will just work everywhere.

Peter

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libgpiod/libgpiod.git/

[1] https://github.com/gpiozero/gpiozero/issues/840 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1471731

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