Testing Adrian Chad's new RPI image for Raspi 400, 4B models with the VCHIQ HDMI Audio update
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:04:27 UTC
Is there a place to download a testing RPI image of FreeBSD 14.3 or 15.0 for hearing the HDMI Audio from the VCHIQ audio subsystem inside the BCM2711 chip. Will the Raspberry Pi 5 HDMI audio subsystem be available in the future for testing a binary image? A few times during playing MP3 audio files, or video, the audio cache buffer would become full and accept no more audio input bytes. I even tried cycling through the values 0,1,2,3 to select the audio output source, yet nothing would clear and freeup the audio interface, except for a complete reboot. Does anyone have tools to examine the VCHIQ state and register byte values, to see what is causing the hangup? Once the buffer is full, no tool to clear the blockage. Will some one right a simple Arm64 command to dump all the records and fix the problem, SEE if there is missing interrupt register values? RustPoPro bare metal rust implementation, could be modified and used to provide visibility. Your thoughts? I would like to download an image and burn into a microSD card, 64GB. Then plug into my Raspi 4B hardware and test that sound plays and does not get a buffer flow condition. Need simple tool to examine registers to see why the buffer is locked, until a full power off reset is performed. Fred L. Finster