On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Eric Bénard wrote: > Le Thu, 9 Feb 2012 11:34:55 -0500 (EST), > "Robert P. J. Day" a écrit : > > so what exactly does one do to read those values? i tried: > > > > barebox@Texas Instrument's Beagle:/ gpio_direction_input 171 > > barebox@Texas Instrument's Beagle:/ gpio_get_value 171 > > > > but what do i check? the shell variable $? i'm not sure what i > > should do next. > > > you can check the mux of the pins to be sure they are in GPIO mode. ok, bear with me as i'm in new territory here. i'm assuming that in order to do that, i need to configure barebox with MACH_OMAP_ADVANCED_MUX, yes? because at the moment, the default is *not*, as you can see in arch/arm/mach-omap/Kconfig: config MACH_OMAP_ADVANCED_MUX bool "Enable advanced pin muxing" depends on MACH_OMAP343xSDP default n help Say Y here if you would like to have complete pin muxing to be done at boot time am i correct in guessing that that's why i'm not getting the values i'm expecting? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================