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

[Mark Murray]

Hi

As soon as I get my RPI4 8GB running reliably - hopefully really soon now - I can commit this. I have a license to do so as I am part of csprng@ :-)

M


> On 6 Mar 2021, at 10:23, Robert Crowston via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 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:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 06.03.2021 7:46, Gordon Bergling wrote:
>> 
>>> 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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