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Date:      Thu, 15 Sep 2016 10:48:31 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
To:        Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com>
Cc:        gabor@zahemszky.hu, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RPi2 with RedBear IoT pHat cannot boot
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Right, but we're missing the "use sdio for non-mmc" bits, which is
what is currently under development. :)


-a


On 15 September 2016 at 10:08, Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please see https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Broadcom under the SDIO section. The=
 two chipsets are in the same group of devices.
>
> Russ
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Virgin Mobile network.
>   Original Message
> From: Russell Haley
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 12:59 PM
> To: gabor@zahemszky.hu; freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: RPi2 with RedBear IoT pHat cannot boot
>
> Sorry for the top post.
>
> I said similar or the same, I don't have a lot of bandwidth to check thes=
e things right now.
>
> SDIO (the hardware interface for both chips) is not currently supported b=
y the FreeBSD kernel and there does not seem to be support for the underlyi=
ng Broadcom chips (as there is no SDIO support!), but Mr. Adrian Chadd may =
be able to speak more to that. =E2=80=8EHe has previously mentioned that th=
e chips are very complex and porting them will be time consuming.
>
> There is currently a new SDIO driver making its way into the head branch =
but it will not be in FreeBSD 11. Mr. Warner Losh could speak more to that.
>
> Please see =E2=80=8Ehttps://reviews.freebsd.org/D4761 for more details on=
 the new CAMMMC driver.
>
> As I am not a hardware/FTD expert, I would guess that the issue you are s=
eeing is the same both ways: the phat is modifying the hardware signature o=
f the device, causing the dtb to fail to load. =E2=80=8EBut that's just a g=
uess.
>
> Russ
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Virgin Mobile network.
>   Original Message
> From: gabor@zahemszky.hu
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 12:35 PM
> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: RPi2 with RedBear IoT pHat cannot boot
>
> Hi!
>
> The saga continues. Under Raspbian, I upgraded the pHAT's firmware from
> the factory default v0.2 to v0.3.
>
> After the FW-upgrade, under Raspbian, it works fine. But under FreeBSD,
> it got worse, as now it failed to boot at all. The actual message is:
>
> Net: Net Initialization Skipped
> No ethernet found.
> libfdt fdt_check_header(): FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC
> Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
> U-Boot>
>
> So there is another problem.
>
>> I don't know why your getting a dtb error but the modem on the phat is
>> similar or the same as the Bananapi Pro and is not currently
>> supported.
>
> Well, thats wrong. In the Banana Pro, we can find (from :
> http://www.lemaker.org/product-bananapro-specification.html )
>
> AP6181 Wifi module.
>
> On the RedBear IoT pHAT (from : https://github.com/redbear/IoT_pHAT )
> there is
>
> AP6212A Wireless with BCM43438 (Wifi + Bluetooth) module.
>
> (the same Broadcom BCM43438 is in the Pi3.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> G=C3=A1bor
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