Bizarre clone attempt failures on Raspberry Pi2...

[Karl Denninger]

On 7/15/2016 16:17, Ian Lepore wrote:

> On Fri, 2016-07-15 at 16:03 -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:
>> As an aside the new u-boot *does* speak to a USB keyboard out-of-box.
>>
>> I am going to attempt to build the environment in boot.scr, which
>> should
>> work (since it reads THAT as well off the boot media) -- if that
>> works
>> it obviates the need for a specific compilation for FreeBSD in the
>> port.
>>
>> Needless to say that's a fairly-material win if it works.
>>
> FreeBSD needs a build of u-boot that adds the CONFIG_API option so that
> loader(8) works.  From what I've heard, recent versions of u-boot have
> broken the CONFIG_API option as part of the "device model" work.  So a
> u-boot new enough that usb keyboards work on rpi is probably too new to
> work with our need for CONFIG_API.
>
> Our path forward probably involves abandoning CONFIG_API (since they
> seem disinclined to support it) and using the new EFI support u-boot
> provides.  But we don't have an EFI loader for armv6 yet either (and I
> don't know that anybody has worked on that yet).
>
> -- Ian
Well then, it's not as easy as it first looked, which might explain why
trying to boot by hand using the new u-boot (which does come up and talk
to me) are not bringing me success :)

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