>> >> How come there is no support for ?ready" and ?error" leds on the soekris 6501 even though it seems fairly easy to control them? >> > > a) perhaps no developer have that board? > b) nobody has written the necessary code to do so? >c) There is no generally accepted meaning for what ?ready? or ?error? LEDs might mean in FreeBSD, so implementing a driver for these LEDs may be a solution in a search of a problem. Tom
On 03/03/2016 04:18 AM, Tom Samplonius wrote:> >>> >>> How come there is no support for ?ready" and ?error" leds on the soekris 6501 even though it seems fairly easy to control them? >>> >> >> a) perhaps no developer have that board? >> b) nobody has written the necessary code to do so? >> > > c) There is no generally accepted meaning for what ?ready? or ?error? LEDs might mean in FreeBSD, so implementing a driver for these LEDs may be a solution in a search of a problem. >I see. To my understanding this works on older soekris hardware but I havent tested it myself. Also the /dev/led/error is specifically mentioned in the led(4) manual. Thanks for your time. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 4351 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20160303/ed5c1838/attachment.bin>
On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 19:18:20 -0800 Tom Samplonius <tom at samplonius.org> wrote:> > >> > >> How come there is no support for ?ready" and ?error" leds on the soekris 6501 even though it seems fairly easy to control them? > >> > > > > a) perhaps no developer have that board? > > b) nobody has written the necessary code to do so? > > > > c) There is no generally accepted meaning for what ?ready? or ?error? LEDs might mean in FreeBSD, so implementing a driver for these LEDs may be a solution in a search of a problem.That part (interpretation) is irrelevant to the OPs question - he asked for a way to control them, not to interpret them. -- Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at getmail.no>