GPIO and SPI

[MarkHaysHarris777]

You might also look into the wiringpi port on pine64.pro/   i have not checked lately, but they may have some SPI working there for the PI bus.

With regards to the wiringPi port on the pine64.pro site... have you or lenny had a chance to try it yet? As it appears that it doesn't actually work yet, and when talking with KB3VGW who was working on the port, he hasn't finished porting the code over yet. I installed the packages from the pine64.pro site, and a simple blink program gets me:

... holy buckets.   um, thanks for bringing that to my attention. This is a real concern. I was in the process of porting it and KB3VGW passed his stuff on to lennryraposo , and led me to believe the port was complete... and guess what-- I stopped working on it !

lennyraposo posted it to his site; so, several of us are under the false impression that the wiringpi port is complete. Well, rats, as i'm so fond of saying. 
Obviously lennyraposo needs to pull the wiringpi stuff off his site and we support staff need to stop telling folks its there. Believe it or not, I had planned to pull it and play with it today because so many people were complaining about it, but lennyraposo's site went seriously down due to a back-hoe incident in his neighborhood and I did not get to play with it today either;  so, thanks for bringing this to my attention.    

And, I suppose I better get started working on it again.   I had lined up Gordon Drogon, the original author to help with the port ( TL Lim said he would send him a board if Gordon was willing to work on it).  But, I called that off too when KB3VGW posted his stuff with lennyraposo.  What a zoo.
Thanks again;  nice revelation for late Friday night !

edit: PS I'll put a bug in lennyraposo's ear as soon as I am able... this weekend... and please feel free (please) to follow up with him too. Obviously we need to talk with KB3VGW... he is in the process of a relocation atm, but as soon as I have a chance to speak with him again, we'll find out how far he got and what the snags were.

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