No usable event timer found on RPI2

bob prohaska fbsd at www.zefox.net
Sat Apr 9 18:17:19 UTC 2016


On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 10:53:34AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> 
> The rpi.dtb file lives on the FAT partition where u-boot is, but it's
> created by the freebsd build process and installing the kernel puts the
> new dtb into /boot/dtb on the freebsd rootfs.  Something else (crochet
> or some similar script, or you by hand) have to copy from there to the
> FAT partition on the sdcard.
> 
> Note that right now all of this is unique to rpi.  For other arm
> boards, u-boot isn't involved in the dtb file loading at all and the
> file is normally read by ubldr from the freebsd filesystem.
> 
> There may come a day when all arm boards have to work more like rpi
> does now (due to the way the u-boot world is evolving).
> 
>
 
What inhibits making the copy to FAT part of  kernel install?

The file has been moved. When the present build/install cycle
completes I'll discover the next of my mistakes 8-).

With my thanks,

bob prohaska



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