RPi4 Status and sysutils/rpi-firmware

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 19:55:54 +0100
Klaus Küchemann <maciphone2 at googlemail.com> wrote:

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> On 2021-Mar-2, at 03:20, Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> wrote:
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> I could write a WIKI-article(!, lol ) about how to fix these firmware-problems and get rid of them forever.

 That's not true.
 Even if we find a version of the firmware files that works for every
RPI boards that all of our users have right now, we will need to update
them when a new RPI boards is out. And with the Compute Module 4 being
out and a lot more carrier board being made than for the CM3 I expect a
lot more firmware updates than before.

> I could also offer a dtb-patch

 Your earlier proposal was to commit into base a modified DTS based on
(I think) a decompiled version of the rpi-firmware DTB and put that in
place of the Linux mainline DTS (which is different) in the contrib
device-tree import tree.
 This cannot work in the long time, if you don't see a problem I'm
soryr for you.

> u-boot-updates, netboot-tools

 You can still do that.

> perhaps write a driver etc. :-) Ha Ha  

 Same thing, you can still do that.

> There's no reason to think the RPI4 does perform bad with FreeBSD

 That's not what this thread is about.

> I know boards with more problems.
> But this topic is old stuff.
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> K.
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Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at FreeBSD.org>