Re: Help / Information request regarding FreeBSD boot on Raspberry Pi CM4

From: Klaus_Küchemann <maciphone2_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 14:35:39 UTC
Hi,

a quick check revealed that the patch was never MFC 'd (Merge From Current). 
So if you want to test it directly, I recommend using a snapshot of the main branch (FreeBSD 15).

Regards
K.


> Am 19.05.2025 um 13:38 schrieb Hugo Kirnbichler <xxx@xxx.xx.xx>:
> 
> Hello Mr. Küchemann,
>   I've got your email address from the FreeBSD mailing list.
>     Trying to get FreeBSD to boot from a NVMe SSD attached to a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Lite,
> I've come across your bug report:
>       https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=260131#c0
>   in which you state that you seem to have managed to get FreeBSD to boot in aforementioned scenario.
>   This is a feat which I've failed to achieve. I managed to get it to boot from an SD card, then it works fine,
> but only as long as there's no NVMe SSD connected.

>   I'm running FreeBSD 13.3 (FreeBSD-13.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img.xz), using 
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>   Thanks for reading all this,
>   sincerely,
> Hugo Kirnbichler
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