RPI2 LED indicators on STABLE-11

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Thu Apr 27 06:10:24 UTC 2017


On 27 April 2017 at 15:15, Karl Denninger <karl at denninger.net> wrote:
> On 4/26/2017 17:16, Jonathan Chen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently updated my RPI2 to STABLE-11, r317393, and I notice that
>> the LED lights do not behave as expected. The power LED lights up as
>> expected with uldr, but when the FreeBSD kernel boot messages start
>> appearing, the red power LED switches off. The green activity LED
>> never powers up. Is there something I have to do to get
>> FreeBSD-11/armv6 to turn on the LED indicators?
>>
> What you are observing is normal.  If you want the green LED to power up
> (flash, etc) you need to do it programmatically.

Ah. Thanks for that. I've just noticed /dev/led/act and /dev/led/pwr.
I'm now hunting for docs to see what I can do with them.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>


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