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

Thanks!

On Friday, May 29th, 2026 at 9:20 PM, Gabe Bauer <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
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> https://youtu.be/03_WJsGqDs0

Maybe the best way to do this is with a second Pi, and a hypothetical 40-pin "crossover" cable running a test driver? I think I might be able to scrounge up some RPi-4 hardware for that. At a brainstorm level, I think I'd write that in Python targeting the Raspbian OS first. Later, if things go well, it could be FreeBSD hosted ;)

I know people here seem to like Rockchip based hardware and other ARM SBCs. I'd be open to that if anyone has better ideas.

> On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 9:22 PM Daniel Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> What do you need help with?
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>>> 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
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>>> The README.md is up to date, but other docs in there might be stale.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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 :)
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>>> Thanks in advance for your attention!