Maybe have a look around, even many years back in ARM world. That is all way bigger than raspi, all Android smartphones in the world, with dominating SoC suppliers like Qualcomm, Samsung, Mediatek, but also raspi/Broadcom competitors like Rockchip, Marvell, Amlogic, NXP, Allwinner, TI, etc. If RPL would stick to there their named tool and likely old method (I actually don't know raspi-gpio), they can't benefit of a common driver ecosystem and Linux kernel in general. So it is simply go with the flow or get hopelessly behind and maybe die or get eaten by let's say Qualcomm.It's for Linux so don't even ask why 'pinctrl' is an entirely different utility, couldn't be made backwards compatible with 'raspi-gpio', even retain its name.This tool is no longer maintained or supported. It has been replaced by the newer pinctrl tool.
Statistics: Posted by redvli — Thu Jan 15, 2026 8:26 pm