Did you ever get this to work?  I'm also finding that P9.17/18 do aren't 
controllable (although I think they are GPIO0_4/5 and thus PIN 4/5).

Regards,
  Hunter

On Monday, November 18, 2013 at 9:48:01 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I am using the beaglebone black with the arch-linux environment booting 
> from SD card.
> I want to use the pins P9.17 and P9.18 as GPIO. These pins correspond to 
> PIN number 86 and 87.
>
> When i export these pins using:
> echo 86 > /sys/class/gpio/export
> echo 87 > /sys/class/gpio/export
>
> When using these pins as input i always get a 0 back even when i attach a 
> high signal on the pin.
> cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio86/value
> 0
> cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio87/value
> 0
>
>
> I checked the pin mux status by:
> cat /sys/kernel/debug/pinctrl/44e10800.pinmux/pinmux-pins
>
> ...
> pin 82 (44e10948.0): 4a101000.mdio (GPIO UNCLAIMED) function 
> davinci_mdio_default group davinci_mdio_default
> pin 83 (44e1094c.0): 4a101000.mdio (GPIO UNCLAIMED) function 
> davinci_mdio_default group davinci_mdio_default
> pin 84 (44e10950.0): (MUX UNCLAIMED) (GPIO UNCLAIMED)
> pin 85 (44e10954.0): (MUX UNCLAIMED) (GPIO UNCLAIMED)
> pin 86 (44e10958.0): (MUX UNCLAIMED) (GPIO UNCLAIMED)
> pin 87 (44e1095c.0): (MUX UNCLAIMED) (GPIO UNCLAIMED)
> pin 88 (44e10960.0): 48060000.mmc (GPIO UNCLAIMED) function 
> pinmux_mmc1_pins group pinmux_mmc1_pins
> ...
>
> So pin 86 and 87 should be free and useable by GPIO. 
> What is interfering with these pins?
>

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