FreeBSD 10.0 on Raspberry PI B+ no network devices

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi Luiz,

I am travelling at the moment. Will onlyt be able to test the coming
week.

Thanks for your work.

Erich


 On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 12:51:50 -0300
Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14 October 2014 01:13, Bernd Walter wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 05:27:43AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 02:14:00AM +0200, Andreas Schwarz wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 19:20:38 -0400
> >> > George Rosamond <george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
> >> > > Erich Dollansky wrote:
> >> > > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:35:36 +0200 (CEST)
> >> > > > Andreas Schwarz <Andreas.Schwarz at schwarzes.net> wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> > > >> I've got also two B+ Models two weeks ago and I'm able to
> >> > > >> use the image (r269955) from my B Models without any
> >> > > >> problems. The only thing, what I had to do, was to upgrade
> >> > > >> the bootloader to a recent version.
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >> Have a look at :
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >>   https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot
> >> > > >>
> >> > > > I used now the image from
> >> > > >
> >> > > > http://freebsd-current.os-hackers.jp/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/20140725/raspberry-pi/
> >> > > >
> >> > > > and the machine boots. I do not know more at the moment.
> >> > >
> >> > > I assume the entire RPi firmware from Github directory gets
> >> > > dumped into /boot/msdos?
> >> >
> >> > Yes, but we don't need the kernel.img, at this point we are
> >> > loading the uboot.img (keep uboot.img and ubldr from your
> >> > existing boot partition).
> >>
> >> In my case the update was even required to work with the SD card.
> >> I got timeout errors after size line.
> >> The same card worked fine in a 512MB B.
> >>
> >> After updating the bootcode to those from:
> >> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot
> >> Just bootcoed.bin wasn't enough, I also had to get fixup* and
> >> startup*. The card and USB worked fine after updating all the
> >> files. I also tested the updated bootcode on a normal 512MB B and
> >> it also booted. Would be nice to have crochet updated for the
> >> newer bootcode. If required I can also test boot on a 256MB B.
> >
> > Ok - that card problem seems random or contact related.
> > Whatever, it is 6 am - time to sleep ;-)
> 
> I've found a missing silicon bug workaround on our driver.
> 
> It's pretty recent and i'm still building new images to test with more
> cards, but it did fix all the instability i was seeing on the
> identification of one of my cards.
> 
> Together with the new firmware (yes, there is another SD fix there) my
> RPi B rev 2 (with this same card) has gone from unusable to rock
> stable (i've done 80 cold boots without any damage/corruption to the
> card).
> 
> Please, give it a try and let me know if it helps.
> 
> Luiz