arm64 as Tier 1 for FreeBSD 13

[Kyle Evans]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 2:33 PM Klaus Küchemann
<maciphone2 at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> > Am 30.01.2020 um 20:55 schrieb Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org>:
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> > On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 1:49 PM Klaus Küchemann via freebsd-arm
> > <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> >>> Am 30.01.2020 um 17:50 schrieb bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net>:
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> >>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 04:16:48PM +0100, Klaus K??chemann via freebsd-arm wrote:
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> >>>>
> >>>> If somebody answers here : " yes, I want a HowTo and will help the fbsd-project",
> >>>> I'll write a HowTo. ;-). If nobody wants to boot FreeBSD on the crappy RPI4 we can't help out :-)
> >>>
> >>> I'll bite. I'd like to see a set of instructions for making FreeBSD boot on a Pi4
> >>> and will help the FreeBSD foundation. My CD-ROM subscription seems to have stopped
> >>> coming, so I'll send a donation direct to the Foundation.
> >>>
> >>> It's worth remembering that FreeBSD, along with the rest of the open-source
> >>> movement, started with ports to the IPM PC-AT, a "crappy" platform by most
> >>> accounts of the day.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for reading,
> >>>
> >>> bob prohaska
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards
> >>>> Klaus
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> >>
> >> Hi Bob,
> >>
> >> wow, hot discussion here :-)
> >> `was more a "joke“  with the „promise to help FreeBSD“ or in other words I didn’t think of money,
> >> With ‚help' I meant bug reports( in best case with patches), reading sourc- codes src .
> >>
> >> O.K., I’ll write a tutorial to the FreeBSD- forums tonight.
> >> But to say it here first, point 6 of Kyle Evans with the 2 question marks is :
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> >> Copying the firmware from RPI-foundation to the SD-card  is step 6 which will make the RPI4 bootable from uSD ….
> >
> > The RPI3 image already has the appropriate firmware on it, installed
> > from sysutils/rpi-firmware.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Kyle Evans
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> Hi Kyle,
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> what you mean is u-boot.bin from sysutils, but there’s a lot more to copy -
> with me it began to work flawlessly with the other files from RPI-foundation  ..
> I’ll write something for the public in the forums tonight when I’m back from the office ..
> Last SD-card I prepared is approx. 1 week ago, so of course some things might have been changed
> in src head...
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I think there's some kind of impedance mismatch here, but I'm not sure
where. The steps are exactly as I wrote for the last RPi4 I stood up,
and shouldn't have changed in the past month or two, even. You should
only need to bring your own U-Boot and copy the rpi4 config.txt over.