Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 10:46:59 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Mika=C3=ABl_Urankar?= <mikael.urankar@gmail.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Felix Maurer <lists@felix-maurer.de>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Pine64: ubldr for arm64 Message-ID: <CAJwjRmTAEGR0-3qr=fcRRUVJ2WY%2BJH5Offz_6vDRDORRpZMQZw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfp7FQJozYSvDNpZu42iT6hjGRay7ntBb%2B2JzD3YSL2TYA@mail.gmail.com> References: <57F0440A.4060709@felix-maurer.de> <CANCZdfp7FQJozYSvDNpZu42iT6hjGRay7ntBb%2B2JzD3YSL2TYA@mail.gmail.com>
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2016-10-02 6:44 GMT+02:00 Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>: > On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Felix Maurer <lists@felix-maurer.de> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA512 >> >> Hi, >> >> I am currently trying to build a FreeBSD image with Crochet to boot on >> the Pine64. >> >> Thanks to the sysutils/u-boot-pine64 port I already got a working SPL >> that starts U-Boot. The normal way to continue booting a image built by >> Crochet is to start ubldr. But at the moment there is no arm64 version >> of ubldr in the tree. >> The only thing I found about this is this diff: >> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5512 . It has been lying around there since >> March and the last comments state that the changes are unnecessary now >> for the RPI3 because a way has been found to boot on a RPI3 without >> U-Boot. Now I have two questions: >> >> 1. Is there a chance for the diff to make it into the tree? Although it >> is no longer needed for the RPI3 it may be needed by other boards. >> 2. As an alternative: What is this mysterious way to boot without U-Boot >> and may this be possible for other boards like the Pine64? > > Both pine and rpi-3 use uboot to boot, but they use it to boot the > UEFI implementation. There's a freebsd port for u-boot on pine64. > There's also a github project to add support for pine64 to crochet, > but I don't have the pointer... here it is: https://github.com/wca/crochet/tree/add-pine64-support
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