Re: Need testers for ALPHA RPi-5 fan control, GE NIC, WiFi drivers for FreeBSD-CURRENT

I can try and do some testing for the fan and WiFi drivers some time next
week. I could also try and see if I could formulate a test for the NIC
using iPerf3 between my RPI5 and Premier P550. I am not quite sure if there
is a streamlined way to test the GPIO pins. The best I was able to find was
this video on YouTube where somebody wired something together with a simple
Python test script.

https://youtu.be/03_WJsGqDs0

On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 9:22 PM Daniel Anderson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> What do you need help with?
>
> On May 29, 2026, at 20:42, Jeremy McMillan <[email protected]> wrote:
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> If anyone has a Raspberry Pi 5 that's not dedicated to anything important,
> I'd appreciate some help testing this:
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> https://github.com/aphor/FreeBSD15-RPi5-modules
>
> The README.md is up to date, but other docs in there might be stale.
>
> IDK if I should try to implement Bluetooth yet. I haven't tried using
> FreeBSD bluetooth with working known-good drivers on supported hardware,
> but when this is relatively complete I'm planning to do some bug fixing and
> performance improvements where necessary in a BETA phase, then a rewrite
> from scratch for maintainability that can be submitted to FreeBSD-CURRENT.
> I know the repo says FreeBSD15, but I'm currently building against
> FreeBSD-16-CURRENT. I've had feedback that the fan control works fine on
> FreeBSD-15.
>
> I also don't know what I should do about GPIO testing. I'd appreciate any
> pointers if other people work with RPi hardware and have any pointers for
> testing GPIO stuff. I think there's a few pins that can do DAC and ADC and
> others that can do PWM (like the ones used for the fan header) when
> programmed to different modes. I have an oscilloscope, but I'd like to
> automate testing as much as possible because my spare time is precious.
>
> It seems like RPi-5 will be around for a while under the current market
> conditions for the semiconductor business, and it is my hope that FreeBSD
> can deserve and get more attention and support from Broadcom and Raspberry
> Pi. Also, I have my own projects :)
>
> Thanks in advance for your attention!
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