4.9 gpio

On a embbeded Linux system, the LEDs are commonly controlled by sysfs interface.
This example demonstrates how to control the LEDs by sysfs with echo command or led_test application.

Hardware Preparation:

• Hardware debugging environment to see chapter2.
• MYD-AM335x series development board

Software Preparation:

• Linux Kernel 4.1.18
• echo, led_test application

Test Steps:

• Copy cross compiled <WORKDIR>/Examples/led/led_test to /usr/bin directory of the MYD-AM335x series development board.

• View the device node of MYD-AM335X LED devices as below:

  1 2	# ls /sys/class/leds myc:green:user1 myd:green:user2 myd:green:user3

• Control the MYD-AM335X LED by echo command as below:

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  D3： #echo "1" > /sys/class/leds/myc:green:user1/brightness #echo "0" > /sys/class/leds/myc:green:user1/brightness D39： #echo "1" > /sys/class/leds/myd:green:user2/brightness #echo "0" > /sys/class/leds/myd:green:user2/brightness D40： #echo "1" > /sys/class/leds/myd:green:user3/brightness #echo "0" > /sys/class/leds/myd:green:user3/brightness

• View the device node of MYD-AM335X-Y LED devices as below:

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# ls /sys/class/leds
myc:green:user1  myd:green:user2

• Control the MYD-AM335X-Y LED by echo command as below:

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D3：

#echo "0" > /sys/class/leds/myc:green:user1/brightness
D2：
#echo "1" > /sys/class/leds/myd:green:user2/brightness
#echo "0" > /sys/class/leds/myd:green:user2/brightness

• View the device node of MYD-AM335X-J LED devices as below:

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# ls /sys/class/leds
myc:green:user1  myd:green:user2

• Control the MYD-AM335X-J LED by echo command as below:

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D3：
# echo "1" > /sys/class/leds/myc:green:user1/brightness
# echo "0" > /sys/class/leds/myc:green:user1/brightness
D2：
# echo "1" > /sys/class/leds/myd:green:user2/brightness
# echo "0" > /sys/class/leds/myd:green:user2/brightness

• Control the LEDs by ‘led_test’ application as below:

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# led_test -h
Usage: led_test [options]

Version 1.0
Options:
-d | --device name   led name myc:blue:cpu0
-l | --light brightness   led brightness. 0~255 0: off.
-h | --help                Print this message

# led_test -d myc:green:user1 -l 0
Set led myc:green:user1 off, brightness = 0
# led_test -d myc:green:user1 -l 1
Set led myc:green:user1 on, brightness = 1