RPI2 LED indicators on STABLE-11

Daniel Braniss danny at cs.huji.ac.il
Thu Apr 27 06:24:59 UTC 2017


> 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

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