Le Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:06:27 +0200,
MIZSEI Zoltán <zmiz...@extrowerk.com> a écrit :

> It won't work as a GPIO device under OpenBSD, 

Why won't it work under OpenBSD? gpio(4) can't play with it? It needs a
specific driver for?
Is it because of the integrated RP2040 co-processor (and maybe it
will work with odroid h4)?

> but you can get it indirectly working like this:
> 
> In this case the GPIO is managed by an rp2040 (aka Raspberry Pico 1)
> chip.  Using the Bootsel button on the board you can switch it into
> LOADER mode, so it shows up as a usb mass storage device. You can
> install your favorite Forth implementation (for example
> https://github.com/tabemann/zeptoforth ) copying the uf2 onto the 
> RP2040 usb drive. It will then show up as a USB CDC serial port,
> connecto to it via "cu" (112500 / 8N1) and write a simple algorythm
> to act as a bridge between the serial port and the GPIO pins.
> 
> You can test it with any kind of rp2040 board you have in your drawer
> to extend your computer with 40pin GPIO (some of them are GND, so it
> isn't really 40 independent pin, but with RP2350 you can have true 40
> pin GPIO).

thx for the trick.

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