Interrupts in Beaglebone

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duslabo picture duslabo · Aug 6, 2012 · Viewed 12.7k times · Source

I am reading a hall sensor output in beaglebone gpio pin, for every rising edge the interrupt service routine needs to execute. So, how to use external interrupt in beaglebone? and is there any standard driver for this purpose?

Thanks.

Answer

TJD picture TJD · Aug 6, 2012

Yes there is a standard driver. This page here shows the basic steps for using gpio's.

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