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gpiodevice: slow GPIO twiddling on Pi 400, Pi 5 #2

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Running Blinkt! via gpiodevice on a Pi 400 (running Ubuntu Mantic) or a Pi 5 works but GPIO twiddling is significantly slower than the ROCK 5B.

To show a frame of 30 pixels (I had to rig up a fake Blinkt!) they take:

  • Pi 400 - 215ms
  • Pi 5 - 129ms
  • ROCK 5B - 9ms

My Pi 400 setup:

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 23.10
Release:	23.10
Codename:	mantic
Hardware	: BCM2835
Revision	: c03130
Model		: Raspberry Pi 400 Rev 1.0

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