RPI4 Install r357606 test 09.02.2020 failed

[Mark Millard]

On 2020-Feb-9, at 18:32, Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> wrote:

> On Feb 9, 2020, at 2:48 PM, Mark Millard via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>> If you want a build that works, use the kernel from head
>> -r356767 . The next head version ( -r356776 ) is where
>> the broken status starts for RPi4 and RPi3. RPi4B's with
>> 4 GiBYTes of RAM fail to boot. As I understand, at least
>> some forms of RPi3 boot but are messed up, such as only
>> running 1 core. (Not surprising given the PSCI version
>> problem which happens there as well.)
> 
> With this version I was able to boot it and log in as root.
> Thanks!
> 
> I don't see any bcm2711 specific files in sys/arm/broadcom/bcm2835.
> Is this intentional? pi3 (bcm2838) and pi4 (bcm2711) are rather
> different.

The ports:

sysutils/rpi-firmware
sysutils/u-boot-rpi4

have the materials that are used, including a .dtb
file. There are other

sysutils/u-boot-rpi*

ports as well. The rpi-firmware has materials for
all of them.



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