How to manage I/Os with Golang on linux embedded system?-CodePudding

I have an linux embedded system. I can manage I/Os with shell commands. This commands change out status of GPIO #48 :

/sys/class/gpio# echo 48 > /sys/class/gpio/export
/sys/class/gpio# echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio48/direction
/sys/class/gpio# echo high > /sys/class/gpio/gpio48/direction
/sys/class/gpio# echo low > /sys/class/gpio/gpio48/direction

How can I manage I/Os with Goland efficiently ? Is it possible to manage them without going through the shell commands ?

CodePudding user response：

On Linux GPIO interface is exported via sys filesystem in /sys/class/gpio hierarchy so as in your shell example you just need to write data into these files, something like:

// To export pin 48 (same as echo 48 > /sys/class/gpio/export)
ioutil.WriteFile("/sys/class/gpio/export", []byte("48"), 0666)
...

Depending on your platform and needs you may want to consider some pre-existing package (e.g. go-rpio for Raspberry Pi or periph which is more general and supports much more than GPIO).

If you want more efficient/faster solution than writing sysfs files you might also consider memory-mapped GPIO access where you basically directly access GPIO periphery via memory range given to it by the kernel. This requires somewhat deeper knowledge of your target platform (understanding its GPIO registers and their mapping). You can read about that approach in detail in this blogpost.