FreeBSD 12.0 RBPI3B+ and hardware clock support

Emmanuel Vadot manu at bidouilliste.com
Thu Nov 22 05:10:32 UTC 2018


On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 13:29:39 -0800
Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo at bluezbox.com> wrote:

> Stefan Parvu (sparvu at kronometrix.org) wrote:
> > > 
> > > - Download i2c-rtc.dtbo and copy it to "overlays/" directory on FAT
> > >  partition
> > 
> > root at k50:~ # ls -lrt /boot/msdos/overlays/
> > total 88
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    946 Jun 19 11:30 pwm.dtbo
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    818 Jun 19 11:30 pi3-disable-bt.dtbo
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   1099 Jun 19 11:30 mmc.dtbo
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  74175 Nov 21 19:43 i2c-rtc.dtbo
> 
> My link was to the file's page on GitHub, not direct download and it
> looks like you donwloaded HTML instead of the dtbo, the correct link is:
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/raw/master/boot/overlays/i2c-rtc.dtbo
> The size is 3934 and MD5 checksum is 6d8217ed669f61c0dfb7b985696a540c
> 
> -- 
> gonzo
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 Note that the rpi-firmware packages install them too.
 Using the package version ensure that you are using the same overlay
version as the base DTB.
 Maybe we should install all overlays in the official image so people
following "Linux" tutorial might have a chance that this works for
FreeBSD.

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Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>


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