new support for Raspberry Pi B+

Dan Raymond draymond at foxvalley.net
Sat Nov 22 22:00:22 UTC 2014


>> I considered that originally which is why I bought 4 different cards of
>> different brands for testing (Transcend, SanDisk, Samsung, Kingston):
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CBD0XSI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00M55C0NS/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IVPU7DQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003WIRFD2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
>>
>> None of them will boot FreeBSD at high speed and I have seen SD related
>> panics with 3 of them (so far) at low speed.
> Well high speed seems to be a different issue.
> But if it happens on multiple different cards, then the corruption is unlikely
> card related.
>
>>> I would actually dispute that this one is an sd-related panic, unless
>>> you have messages about gvfs_iodone failures on the console before the
>>> panic.  Otherwise this is more likely another memory corruption problem
>>> similar to the panics being reported on wandboard.
>> The RPi is also sensitive to power. I?ve seen weird corruption like this when I tried to run
>> my RPi off a battery and the battery was getting weak...
> They completely redesigned the power design in the B+, including the
> use of decent switching regulators.
> Assuming the problem happens on a B+ as the subject claims.
>

Yes, it is a Raspberry Pi B+.  I just received a second one yesterday to 
do more testing and I am experiencing issues on this one too.


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