How to powerd in FREEBSD 12.1 STABLE over RPI-B

[Miguel]

El Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:49:53 +0100
Miguel <mjsisan at gmail.com> escribió:
> Hi all, I hope you can help me with this
> 
> I have used powerd since FREEBSD 10.2 on my RPI-B, but when
> upgrading to FREEBSD 12 I can't get it to work. If i run:
> 	powerd
> 	powerd: no cpufreq (4) support - aborting: No such file or
> 	directory
> 
> it seems that this feature is not enabled by default
> I also can't find any CPU when running
> 
> dmesg | grep cpu
> (show nothing)
> 
> however if I run these same commands under FreeBSD 11.2 I get
> different results:
> 
> 	dmesg | grep cpu
> 
> cpulist0: <Open Firmware CPU Group> on ofwbus0
> cpu0: <Open Firmware CPU> on cpulist0
> bcm2835_cpufreq0: <CPU Frequency Control> on cpu0
> bcm2835_cpufreq0: ARM 700MHz, Core 250MHz, SDRAM 400MHz, Turbo OFF 
> 
> 
>   and the powerd daemon works
> 
> powerd
> 	powerd: powerd already running, pid: 789
> 
> Maybe something missing in dts?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Miguel

This issue has been solved; please see
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-to-make-powerd-works-in-freebsd-12-1-stable-over-rpi-b.72799/

regards,
Miguel