RPi4 Status and sysutils/rpi-firmware (and rng)

[Robert Crowston]

That patch was updated by James Mintram. It was accepted, but has not yet been committed.

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22493


— RHC.

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Saturday, 6 March 2021 08:16, Alex Samorukov <samm at freebsd.org> wrote:

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> On 06.03.2021 7:46, Gordon Bergling wrote:
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> > bugs.
> > The 4GB model seems to not have such many firmware bugs as the 8GB model,
> > I never updated the firmware or the u-boot image, but I'll try the patches
> > to incorporate this into my regular testing.
> > Thanks for your work on that platform!
>
> +1 from me.
>
> Using 2 RPi boards (RPI4/4Gb and old RPI1/512Mb) and both working very
> good and stable with FreeBSD. I think in fact i never had any OS crash
> in a last 6+ months or so.
>
> Now thinking to get 8Gb model, mostly for testing and as a build host.
> One of the things i found that RPi4 does not have rng driver. On attempt
> to port one from OpenBSD i found in this maillist patches [1], but it
> seems they never got any review/been merged. What is the best way to got
> it in the upstream?
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/compare/master...RobCrowston:pi4-hwrng
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