Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 11:17:02 -0700 From: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JMicron jms561 umass on arm64? Message-ID: <20210408181702.GA24445@www.zefox.net> In-Reply-To: <694B7C84-E627-4E17-9148-4C4BB54FAD17@yahoo.com> References: <trinity-96292338-af50-4ea1-a4cf-0afcd97dfe35-1617806989816@3c-app-gmx-bs02> <20210407153732.GA50562@www.zefox.net> <trinity-2bcace35-09e8-4e81-87be-53287568c3c1-1617827433585@3c-app-gmx-bs02> <20210407211513.GA53438@www.zefox.net> <trinity-c3148d05-2413-4522-b67d-8be37f8c0dad-1617868014706@3c-app-gmx-bs02> <A2E9C605-ABB3-40E3-931C-7FB10CDD0990@yahoo.com> <20210408150934.GA99223@www.zefox.net> <694B7C84-E627-4E17-9148-4C4BB54FAD17@yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 09:23:55AM -0700, Mark Millard wrote: > On 2021-Apr-8, at 08:09, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote: > > > I forgot to mention that before initially booting FreeBSD on > > my Pi4B I booted it with RasPiOS and ran sudo apt update/upgrade. > > That likely fixed the firmware on the Pi without intelligent > > intervention. > > How would booting RasPiOS via RasPiOS media and running > apt update/upgrade automatically update the firmware that > is on the FreeBSD media, files like start4.elf on the > msdos file system on FreeBSD boot media? > > I was not writing of things like the eepprom update that > enables USB booting on older RPi*'s that did not support > such initially. I explicitly mentioned start4.elf and > "firmware-boot-stage media". > > Unless there were more steps than described, I doubt the > activity updated what I was refering to. > Perhaps I'm confusing firmware with eeprom. ISTR that I did have to copy a selection of new files into /boot/msdos, but I don't think that booted until running RasPiOS and updating it, using apt upgrade. Unfortunately I wasn't taking notes.... Apologies for any misdirection caused, bob prohaska
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