The uio interface

uio provides access to a specific uio device. This interface is restricted because it provides privileged access to uio hardware.

The slot is intended to be implemented by a gadget snap and is not provided by the core system snap.

Auto-Connect: no
Attributes:

  • path (slot): path to uio device. e.g. /dev/uio1

Requires snapd version 2.44+.

To use the uio device, the snap developer must add plugs: [ uio ] to a snap’s snapcraft.yaml. The snap user can then access a specific disk partition with an interface connection.

Use snap interface uio to see which disk partitions are available on the system for snaps to use:

$ snap interface uio
name:    uio
summary: allows access to specific uio device
slots:
  - foo:uio1
  - foo:uio2

Once connected, the consuming snap can use the device via the path specified by the connected slot.

ⓘ This is a snap interface. See Interface management and Supported interfaces for further details on how interfaces are used.