Anybody tried Servoblaster on Raspberry Pi 5?

[Ekkehard]

Raspberry Pi 5 has been a PITA for lots of GPIO users as the hardware has changed significantly and many if not most software packages driving GPIO stopped working. Before I sink a lot of time trying to get Servoblaster to work on a RB Pi 5, I thought I’d ask if somebody has done that before and what the results were.

[Ekkehard]

Given the lack of quick responses and (mostly) the time of last updates, may I ask if this project is still actively supported? Obviously, no answer is a perfectly acceptable answer too in this case.

BTW—for all of those landing here searching the interwebs trying to get Servoblaster to work on an RB Pi 5, I couldn’t get it to work on RB Pi 5 with a “Failed to map peripheral” error message (after installing libraspberrypi-dev and raspberrypi-kernel-headers and fixing the cast of pointer to int error in line 69 of mailbox.c).

I looked at the servod.c code and decided not to pursue it any further since register-bit-banging is definitely well-suited for getting everything out of a given hardware, but survives significant hardware changes (like the one to RB Pi 5) usually very poorly. And who knows what RB Pi 6 will bring…