RPI2 LED indicators on STABLE-11

[Jonathan Chen]

On 27 April 2017 at 18:17, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>
>> On 27 Apr 2017, at 09:10, Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> man led

Yup, got that. I esp. like the example:
  /usr/bin/morse -l "Soekris rocks" > /dev/led/error

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