RPi4b 8GB 13.0-Current, XHCI broken, wrong U-Boot ?

Kyle Evans kevans at freebsd.org
Fri Jan 1 18:25:10 UTC 2021


On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 11:05 AM Robert Crowston via freebsd-arm
<freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> The u-boot output is not a smoking gun; the u-boot version packaged up there did not have the driver in it. The freebsd driver is separate and does not depend on u-boot.
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> As I recall, that warning indicates that we tried, but failed to load the firmware, which I haven’t seen in the wild before. Could you try booting in verbose mode?
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> Do you know what version of USB firmware is installed on the Pi? Alternatively, when did you purchase this hardware? (My suspicion is that the Pi foundation moved the goalposts again ...)
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> You say this works fine with the UEFI boot? If you can use boot with that one, it would be good to see if it works.
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> Re: state of the pi 4, I guess we should bundle up a proper image of it, either for USB drive or SD Card, instead of telling users to perform all this surgery.
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What surgery are you referring to here? The -RPI image OP tried from
the 24th is one that should boot as-is on all arm64 RPi variants
without modification using the upstream U-Boot rpi arm64 config and a
consolidated config.txt that conditionally does what's needed for the
RPi4.


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