Updating the RPI2 firmware

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 21:54:46 +0200
Toby <misc.lists at fsck.ch> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I initially installed my RPI2 model B from an iso image found here:
> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm/armv6/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/
> (that subdir does not exist anymore after RELENG_11 has been tagged)
> 
> Since then, I updated a few times by building world directly on the
> pi. I however never updated the firmware files (those residing on the
> msdos slice).
> 
> Should I update these as well? If so, where do I find the correct
> versions and how do I update? I did try overwrite with the files from
> the latest image a while ago, but that didn't work, my system didn't
> boot anymore.
> 
> Thanks,
> Toby
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I do something like this:

mount -t msdosfs /dev/mmcsd0s1 /boot/dtb
make installkernel
umount /boot/dtb

Erich