head -r357356: fails to boot RPi4 but boots Rock64 (same media, moved between machines); -r356426 booted both

[Klaus Küchemann]

> Am 02.02.2020 um 04:07 schrieb Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com>:
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> On 2020-Feb-1, at 18:38, Klaus Küchemann <maciphone2 at googlemail.com <http://googlemail.com/>> wrote:
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>>>>> Am 02.02.2020 um 01:11 schrieb Mark Millard via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org>:
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>>>> ...
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>>>> Although perhaps not same issues you have with "current" GENERIC-NODEBUG 
>>>> we have to switch to GENERIC-MMCCAM if we want to access the SDIO of RPI4 .
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>>> I'm unsure if I'd be doing anything where this mattered.
>>> Serial console, EtherNet (e.g., ssh use), possibly a
>>> USB based SSD is what is normal for me. Not much else.
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>> It has to do with the proprietary brcmfmac-firmware which we can/will bind over the SDIO-bus 
>> Because we currently have not yet implemented all things which are normal for you ;-) 
>> we need a network and why leaving WIFI in dead state?
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> I'm fine using the Rock64 to get things on the
> microSD card that I've also been putting in the
> RPi4B.
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> I can even boot the Rock64 via an eMMC and use
> the microSD card slot with a microSD card in it
> as a separate device, not even requiring USB to
> be involved.
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>>> No such problem in my context, for the readers that
>>> I tried.
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>> thanks for valuable information of the uSD-plug USB-bus on your Rock64, I had that issue on the Rockpro64 
>> with a card reader which works under fbsd-x86 .
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> I've no RockPro64 access.
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>>>> … thanks in advance to you all if you are willing to test GENERIC-MMCCAM in addition to GENERIC-NODEBUG ! 
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>>> I'm unsure what I'm supposed to find as different
>>> using MMCCAM. So I've no clue what to test or why.
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>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/SDIO
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>> you have to test it now , the whole night long  !
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> Likely my next tests will be of simple booting
> of the RPi4B based on head -r357392 (or later).
> Then other devices will likely also be updated,
> include a couple of SSDs for old PowerMacs (32-bit
> and 64-bit).
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> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com/>
> ( dsl-only.net <http://dsl-only.net/> went
> away in early 2018-Mar)


A shame that I could not force you to overflow to the SDIO-group ...
I `ve got many old Macs here around too , the best is UCSD-Pascal-OperatingSystem on the AppleII
but that machine  doesn’t have SDIO so I overflowed  to FreeBSD ;-)
keep us tuned with -r357392, thank you

Regards

Klaus