On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 07:06:43PM +0100, Alessio Ciregia wrote: > Hello. > You can find more information about the topic here: > https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/gpio-expander/ > In short words, you can use the GPIO of the Raspberry Pi Zero without > installing an OS on it: you don't need an SD card nor a power supply. You > only have to plug the USB cable between your PC and the RPi, and you can > drive the GPIO pins directly from your laptop or desktop. Deepening a > little, even if I'm not an expert of buildroot and so on, the RPi Zero > perform the boot of a minimal system via the USB interface and it emulates > an ethernet dongle. > > I would like to write how to use such handy functionality on Fedora (and > it's nothing complicated: you only have to clone the GIT repos and build > the gpioexpander and usbboot programs) because reading various posts around > the web, it seems that this feature can be used only on the Raspberry Pi > Desktop (aka Pixel) and Ubuntu distros, and this is a misleading impression: > in fact we can use also our beloved Fedora workstation, even if there are > not RPMs available. I think this sounds like a great DIY project type article. Are you still interested in doing a draft for the Magazine? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
