Old problem still present on 11-ALPHA1 - Pi2

[Bernd Walter]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 07:06:40PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:
> On 7/11/2016 18:22, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> > On 11/07/16 22:58, Bernd Walter wrote:
> >> Sure it is not the board, powersupply, cable or switchport?
> >> Check if the red power LED on the Raspberry is on - it goes off under
> >> a certain supply voltage, although the board contiues to work.
> > Hmm, the LEDs (red/green) on the RPI2 should work on FreeBSD?
> >
> > I have two RPIs 2 (and one RPI3) and three different power supplies and
> > the red LED is only on for a few seconds after connecting the power
> > cable. The LEDs are working permanently when I run Arch Linux ARM.
> That's the default, yes.  The red LED goes out when the kernel loads.

I've just tested it myself.
On all tested (7) Pi1 it stayed on.
On a Pi2 however it goes off and it is unlikely a power thing.
That is with FreeBSD-11-ALPHA6 image.
Will do some variable voltage tests to see if this is static or not.

> However, I have a little daemon process that blinks the green one, so I
> know it's running, and it works fine...

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