Issue booting RPI2 B (v1.2) [V1.2 is BVM2837 and quad-core Cortex-A53 based]

[Mark Millard]

On 2016-Oct-20, at 11:22 AM, Kris Moore <krisat ixsystems.com> wrote:

> I've been toying around with a bunch of RPI2's here (using
> 11.0-RELEASE), and so far so good. However I just ordered a new batch of
> them and they all get stuck at the "rainbow" screen. After further
> investigation, I noticed that they were marked as "Raspberry Pi 2 Model
> B V1.2", and all my other units are V1.1. Just for kicks, I tried
> rasbian, and that works fine.
> 
> Is this possibly an issue with U-Boot being too old for this revision?
> Any other ideas?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kris Moore
> iXsystems
> Enterprise Storage & Servers Driven By Open Source

https://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/raspberrypi2 says:

> Raspberry Pi 2 Model B v1.2

> Previous versions of Raspberry Pi 2 Model B use the BCM2836 SoC, which contains a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor. The Raspberry Pi 2 Model B v1.2 board uses BCM2837, which contains a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor. It is necessary to update to the latest (October 2016) version of the device firmware and Linux kernel to allow the board to boot up properly.

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Mark Millard
markmi at dsl-only.net