RPi4B: modern firmware vs. Device tree loaded to 0x4000 (size 0xbe0c) [fails] vs. to 0x1f0000 (size 0xbd90) [works]?

Klaus Cucinauomo maciphone2 at googlemail.com
Sun Oct 11 13:17:48 UTC 2020



> Am 11.10.2020 um 15:11 schrieb Robert Crowston <crowston at protonmail.com>:
> 
>> That’s the problem, armstub8-gic should have been removed when using modern firmware because it no longer depends on it.
> 
> So are you telling me that I could rip out all the startup logic from the armstub and just leave our CPU spin up logic?
> 
> — RHC.

yes, exactly, even :
$rm /Volumes/MSDOSBOOT/armstub8-gic.bin 

( while I wouldn't swear that the initialization of your pcie driver from fdt will continue to run smoothly in the boot-process directly from SSD,
I expect necessary adjustments..)

K.




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